The State Versus Elinor Norton

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1934. L3 - An ex-library hardcover book in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some small tears on the edges, corners and some sides, some scattered stains and scuffing, significant tanning, and light shelf wear. Book has library info stamped on the front fixed endpaper, cocked, some bumped corners and light edgewear, wrinkling on the spine edges, some scattered light stains, moderate tanning and light shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8"x5.75", 300 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Elinor Norton faced a jury in a western state far from her native New York. What did they understand of the mind and heart of this woman who stood there accused of murder in the first degree? They never were allowed to hear the story of her life; but only of stray events, often misinterpreted, often cruelly pulled from their proper sequence. In her first romantic novel since THIS STRANGE ADVENTURE, Mrs. Rinehart tells the inner story of a woman's life and of a murder, the dramatic and yet realistic series of events that produced the character of Elinor Norton and brought her to struggle against the law for her freedom. It is a simple story, and a moving one, not the conventional parading of a murderess at her trial, but the unfolding of a life, unusual perhaps in its climatic events, but universal in many of its implications. Elinor Norton was a beautiful woman. In her childhood she had been emotionally frozen by a mother who sacrificed love and happiness for her mad devotion to Aristocracy. This book is the story of the ice-break and the thaw of the events which lay in this woman's way before she could openly and completely accept life. And this freedom of the spirit dwarfs the liberation for which she battled with the State.. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.