Features
- Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 272 pages
- Published by: St. Martin's True Crime March 2001
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0312978359
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312978358
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Book Dimensions:
6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 4.8 ounces
Product Review
"[This book is] about one of the most vicious crimes that I have ever been involved with . I highly recommend it." --
Roy Hazelwood, FBI profiler and co-author of The Evil That Men Do
Product Review
"[This book is] about one of the most vicious crimes that I have ever been involved with . I highly recommend it." --
Roy Hazelwood, FBI profiler and co-author of The Evil That Men Do
Reader Reviews
This review is from: An Hour to Kill: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Justice in a Small Southern Town (Hardcover)
An Hour to Kill: Love, Murder and Justice in a Small Town, by Dale Hudson and Billy Hills is a must-read for true crime fans. The murder of South Carolina teen, Crystal Faye Todd, in 1991 is a gruesome tale. Authors, Hudson and Hills, are brilliant in the research and telling of this true story which shocked the small community of Conway, S.C. I could not put this book down! The reader can just see the characters and images of the rural South in fact, the book just drips with the South; the authors use just the right amount of dialogue and dialect. The case drew so much attention, with accusations flying from family members of both the victim and the defendant, that author Mickey Spillane and his wife, took up aggressive involvement for the defendant. Sally Jesse Raphael did a show on the murder case. DNA evidence was the scientific highlight of the trial. Definitely, a page-turner, the reader is taken into the lives of regular Southern folks and immersed in an intriguing, heartbreaking story, with some bizzare twists and turns. I put this book in the same class with true crime writers Ann Rule and Jack Olsen.
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