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Book Review of The State vs. Elinor Norton

The State vs. Elinor Norton
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The trial was a media sensation. All the more so because Elinor Norton admitted right from the start that she had done it. She had killed him. She was guilty.
Or was she? What had really put this beautiful, wealthy young woman on trial for her life? What had actually happened that dark afternoon on her bleak and isolated estate? And when the jury handed in their verdict, would it read guilty or innocent?