01539cam a2200373 4500 367585730 TxAuBib 20180516120000.0 091101s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780312558161 trade : alk. paper 0312558163 trade : alk. paper TxAuBib McCrumb, Sharyn. The devil amongst the lawyers / Sharyn McCrumb. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. x, 320 p. ; 25 cm. Ballad ; 8 The 1935 trial for Erma Morton, a teacher in a remote Virginia mountain town who stands accused of murdering her drunken father, causes reporter Carl Jennings to clash with the rest of the media when his accurate reporting conflicts with the sensational accounts from the other journalists who insist on portraying Erma as a backwards mountain girl. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20100701. Journalists Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Mountain life Virginia Fiction. Ballads Fiction. Trials (Homicide) Fiction. Historical fiction. Appalachian Region History 20th century Fiction. Virginia, Southwest 20th century Fiction. Southwest Virginia Fiction. Legal stories. Ballad ; 8.