01250cam a2200313 4500 346853068 TxAuBib 20180521120000.0 091101s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009045768 9780312558161 alk. paper $24.99 0312558163 alk. paper $24.99 (OCoLC)463855418 TxAuBib McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948- The devil amongst the lawyers : a ballad novel / Sharyn McCrumb. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. x, 320 p. ; 25 cm. In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl. 20180521. Journalists Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Mountain life Virginia Fiction. Ballads Fiction. Appalachian Region History 20th century Fiction. Virginia, Southwest 20th century Fiction. TXJOU