Once Upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder and the Law

Harry N. MacLean

ISBN 10: 0440217164 / ISBN 13: 9780440217169

Published by Island Books (edition Reprint), 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Once Upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder and the Law
• Publisher: Island Books (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440217164
• ISBN 13: 9780440217169
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Recounts George Franklin's 1990 trial in a California courtroom for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, after his daughter testified she had witnessed the crime but had repressed the memory for twenty years. Reprint.

About the Author

HARRY N. MACLEAN is a lawyer and writer based in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of In Broad Daylight, which won an Edgar Award for Best True Crime and was a New York Times bestseller for twelve weeks; his second book, Once Upon A Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder, and the Law, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his third book, The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Search for Redemption, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Award, given by Stanford University. His debut novel, The Joy of Killing, published in July 1015, has been described as a “combination love story, mystery, psychological suspense and meditation on the nature and origin of violence.”