01372cam a2200337 4500 599024190 TxAuBib 20131004120000.0 091101s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009045768 9780312558161 alk. paper $24.99 0312558163 alk. paper $24.99 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. Ballad mystery, A ; 8 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. 20131004. Journalists Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Mountain life Virginia Fiction. Ballads Fiction. Appalachian Region History 20th century Fiction. Virginia, Southwest 20th century Fiction. Legal stories. Historical fiction. A Ballad mystery ; 8.