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Praise for Springtime for Sophie ""The year was 1909, the setting a decaying New England mill town. A saloonkeeper was left for dead, shot a dozen times, his throat slashed for good measure, yet still babbling that a winsome music teacher and her young beau, the victim's rival in love, had done the deed. The two murder trials that followed drew curious hordes and the attention of a nation. With meticulous archival work and rare narrative gifts, Professor Richard Underwood unearths this lost tale of death, duplicity, and personal ruin. In retelling a grisly true-life crime story, Underwood delivers a rich ethnography of Naugatuck, Connecticut, and a law school seminar on evidence, criminal procedure, trial strategy, and lawyers' ethics. It is a lesson too in the gnawing uncertainty of true-life crime stories, where some witnesses lie and others honestly forget, and crafty lawyers win fame by torturing the truth into submission to their designs."" - GEORGE FISHER, Stanford Law School Praise for Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York ""An accessible, marvelously rigorous account of a bygone legal era. Underwood is a masterful researcher . . .[H]e furnishes a series of journalistically rendered vignettes meant to capture the essence of that legal milieu."" -Kirkus Reviews ""[A] comprehensive and compelling addition to the true crime genre. Underwood's knowledge of law and order combined with his research into the underbelly of New York City's Gaslight Era make for an exhilarating, informative read."" -Clarion Foreword Reviews Praise for CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads ""Underwood has written a delightful book about a gruesome subject. . . .A sometimes-sad, sometimes-humorous look at ballads that have preserved a part of America's crazed, violent history."" -Kirkus Reviews

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Richard H. Underwood, University of Kentucky University Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, is the author of Springtime for Sophie: Murder and Madness in a Connecticut Mill Town, Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York, and CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads. He is also the co-author of several books on evidence, trial technique and legal ethics. Underwood has published numerous articles on the law, legal history, perjury, famous trials, and true crime. He has lectured or presented papers on diverse subjects at conferences across the United States and in London and Amsterdam.

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