The New York Times described the work as an "eerie and beautiful novel". After marrying Charlotte, Wetter murders her. It soon becomes apparent that the writers underestimated Wetter. With the newspapermen's support, Wetter is released from prison and the pair win the Pulitzer Prize. However the journalists embellish the facts and play up certain aspects of the story while downplaying others, and Yardley sleeps with Charlotte. The evidence against Wetter is inconsistent and the writers are confident that if they can expose Wetter as a victim of redneck justice then their story will be a potential Pulitzer Prize winner. Bless attempts to prove Wetter's innocence by enlisting the support of two investigative reporters from a Miami newspaper hungry for a salacious story: the ambitious Yardley Acheman and the naive, idealistic Ward James, heir to the newspaper's publisher. In prison Wetter receives correspondence from Charlotte Bless, a woman he has never met but who has fallen in love with him and is determined that he should be released and that they should marry.īless provokes immense sexual tension in any situation, given her beauty and presence.
Wetter is now on death row and awaiting execution. Call had previously stomped Wetter's handcuffed cousin to death. Hillary Van Wetter was jailed for the murder of an unscrupulous local sheriff, Thurmond Call.
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