This cover is brilliant but uncredited, painted for So Fair, So Evil by Paul Connolly, aka Tom Wicker, for Gold Medal Books, 1955. Our header, of course, could apply to men as well, probably more so, but we work with the art we have. The story concerns a Korean War vet whose wife commits suicide while he’s in a mental institution. Upon his release he concludes that it was murder and decides to solve the crime, which invloves dealing with his wife’s rich southern family. Generally, the book has rapturous reviews, but we couldn’t find a vintage edition. We did, however, find a vintage copy of Connolly’s 1952 novel Tears Are for Angels, which is supposed to be excellent too. We’ll read it and report back.
1935—Jury Finds Hauptmann Guilty
A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. Hauptmann is sentenced to death and executed in 1936. For decades, his widow Anna, fights to have his named cleared, claiming that Hauptmann did not commit the crime, and was instead a victim of prosecutorial misconduct, but her claims are ultimately dismissed in 1984 after the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to address the case.