Murder of a Little Girl by Samuel Roen SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1973 • Chateau

Murder of a Little Girl by Samuel Roen

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1973] CHATEAU PUBLISHING

Front endpaper has been personally inscribed and signed by author Samuel Roen.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition with flaws:  *Foxing to text block, mostly at top with some spotting down length.  Reads clean. 

Dust jacket is sharp, clean and in tact with some edge wear and trace foxing to edges of panels. 

Here is the true story of the disappearance, search and discovery of a violated, butchered, murdered, buried eight year old girl and the police tracking, arrest and classic trial which led to the conviction of the murderer.

Samuel Roen gives us the full details of Florida's most heinous murder. We are there from the beginning-when Camellia Jo Hand "turns up missing" and a suspenseful community search is conducted from headquarters established in the Jesus Light Of The World Church where the child is last seen on her way to school. From there we are taken on a grim manhunt as the author describes for us the great police work, the community fervor that boils up in reaction to the horror of the crime, and the inter- minable investigation and interrogation of hundreds of suspects; the painstaking attention to every clue, the eventual tracking down of the criminal and then the arrest, the arraignment, the imprisonment and the trial.

Florida's brilliant prosecutor State Attorney Robert Eagan structures a great case that is fought with tigerous tenacity by two court appointed master defense lawyers, Edward J. Hanlon, Jr., a former Criminal Court Judge and Meredith Cohen, a former County Solicitor.

Murder Of A Little Girl is accurate reportage entailing three years of careful work. All in these pages is true. There are no apologies for anybody or anything for only
coincidentally recognizible, truth is set down here, which is indeed stranger than fiction could ever be.