Call the Witness

CALL THE WITNESS

Bart French is an outsider in this Massachusetts town. Sure, he married a local, and works in a local law firm. But he’s still an outsider. When his beautiful young wife is found brutally murdered, Bart is devastated. But it soon becomes obvious that instead of sympathy, everyone begins to point fingers of guilt at him.

The police assume he is guilty, and his mother-in-law wastes no time in proclaiming what a brute of a husband Bart had been. In no time at all, the local D.A. has Bart in a courtroom, prepared to prove his guilt to the world. Bart’s friends know he is innocent, but how to prove it? And if he didn’t kill his wife, who didn’t have an enemy in the world… who did?

Edna Solomon Sherry was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 28, 1885. She graduated from Hunter College in 1906 and taught English there before becoming a professional writer. She began writing short stories for the pulp magazines, collaborating with Milton Gropper on two early novels. Sherry’s first crime novel—and best known work—was Sudden Fear, published in 1948. It was filmed in1952 with Joan Crawford, Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame, and is considered a film noir classic. Sherry married dentist Ernest Sherry in 1909, and remained so until his death. Sherry herself passed away on February 4, 1967, in New York City.