CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads

Research output: Book/ReportBook

Abstract

In CrimeSong, law professor and authentic storyteller Richard H. Underwood recreates in engaging and folksy prose the true facts behind twenty-four Southern murder ballads. Underwood has resurrected these stories and shares them with the reader through his old lawyer trifocals.

He presents his case studies, documented through contemporary news accounts and court records, as a series of dramas filled with jump-off-the-page real and memorable characters.
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 2017

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