Witch Hunt in Wise County: The Persecution of Edith Maxwell

by Gary Dean Best

The southwest Virginia murder trials of a young schoolteacher named Edith Maxwell made her a cause celebre of the 1930s. No newspaper reader or radio listener could avoid hearing of her case in 1935 or 1936, and few magazines neglected to run at least one story on the case. In the media attention that it received, the Maxwell case rivaled the Scopes monkey trial of the 1920s, and for some it seemed to involve many of the same sociological issues--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275948927
• ISBN13: 9780275948924
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"