Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan Author: Visit Amazon's Mark I. Pinsky Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0895876116 | Format: EPUB
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Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan by Mark I. Pinsky is Publishers Weekly's Pick of the Week with a starred review in the June 17 issue. The reviewer notes that "this compulsively page-turning true crime narrative has it all: smart prose, a now-obscure unsolved murder that was notorious at the time, and an investigative journalist trying to pick up the trail." --Publishers Weekly, June 17, 2013
"[Pinsky's] characterization of the people involved, from lawmen to the victim's neighbors to suspects, and his description of everyday life in Madison County, are vivid.... Inasmuch as this is a story of Pinsky's own investigation, it is likely to be unique in any collection and of interest to aficionados of cold cases and/or North Carolina political history." --Ricardo Laskaris, Library Journal About the Author
A former staff writer for the
Los Angeles Times and
Orlando Sentinel, Mark Pinsky holds degrees from Duke University and Columbia University. As an investigative journalist specializing in capital murder cases around the Southeast, he has written for the Wall Street Journal and
USA Today. Though this is his first true-crime work, he has previously published four religion-oriented books, including
The Gospel According to the Simpsons. He resides in Maitland, Florida.
- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher; First Edition edition (October 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0895876116
- ISBN-13: 978-0895876119
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Reading this book was reminiscent of Gloria Jahoda's The Other Florida (1994). She lived in Tallahassee where her husband was a professor at Florida State University. The Panhandle and its people, flora, and fauna fascinated her. Her interest was genuine, unlike many others, and the locals quickly recognized it. So, when she drove up to an isolated habitation, they would talk to her. Natives, most anywhere, can instantly spot the condescension of social workers and others and take appropriate measures.
Met Her on the Mountain is a lesson in many things and a monument to his long research and talents. Reading like a murder mystery, a novel, it is real. He appreciated the beautiful environment and the nuances and complexities of its inhabitants, the latter universals. This book is compelling reading.
I remember Mark Pinsky and The Protean Radish, fortunately collected by the library, during the student protests at Duke University in the 1960s. I was a young manuscript librarian, neither approving or especially disapproving. He, like us also, has come a long way.
I flew to the index. Only one reference to a Rector, Miss Clarine, and nothing to worry about. Rector is my middle name, and Rectors are numerous, long-time inhabitants. They are the Richters of Germany from the Germanna First Colony, 1714, in Virginia. They came from the ancient iron mining and forging area around Siegen, and earlier from near Meissen in Saxony. They abound in Madison's cemeteries and have given their name to geographic features. An old friend, long resident there when in the country, early found his nest . I know a bit of the county. I was familiar with "Bloody Madison," but not the murder case, and only last year the Rector clan.
This book is well worth Mr.
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