When we stopped by the visitor center gift shop in St. Augustine, I checked out their local interest books. This one looked strange so I picked it up.
The book is about the actual events surrounding the murder of Athalia Lindsley, a St. Augustine local with a very interesting past. She had been married several times, she was an actress, and she was involved in politics.
The book is written by a newspaper reporter/friend of the victim. She writes from a perspective of an insider to the events going on.
There is some dispute over who did the crime. The victim had some issues with her husband and with a local politician. The crime itself is officially never solved, though one person does go to trial over it.
The story is generally weird on many levels. There is a witness to the crime, another murder victim, and a church lends its support to a suspect. Plus, this is the late 70s, during a time before much of the modern technology we have now to investigate crimes.
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