Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell by Jack Olsen SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1989 • Atheneum

Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell by Jack Olsen 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1989] ATHENEUM BOOKS

*Front endpaper has been flat-signed by author, Jack Olsen.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition;  minor shelf wear.   Dust jacket now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint and reads like new. 

1990 Edgar Award winner for best true crime novel.

For twenty-five years, John Story, the trusted family doctor, in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him. Mostly Mormons, the naive victims sometimes realized on their wedding nights the truth about what had happened in Dr. Story's office.

In riveting detail, veteran crime writer Jack Olsen tells the searing story of a small group of courageous women who decided to bring a doctor to justice — and unearthed a legacy of pain and anger that would divide their families, their neighbors, and an entire town Publishers Weekly: This masterful book by the author of Son, as much a searching sociological study as a true-crime narrative, tells what happened in Lovell when these happenings came to light: the community lost its bearings and the doctor was convicted of rape.