Down by the Back River Light: The Sensational 1931 Murder Trial of Professor Kane

by Ann Davis

When the shadow of the Back River Light fell on Sash Kane, the scion of a Pennsylvania family, newspapers up and down the East Coast reported all the details of Elizabeth City County's murder case of the century. The ""other woman,"" Kane's autobiographical sketch, and the Dreiser novel, banned in Boston, found in Kane's Roadster, was the stuff that sold papers. Had fiction mimicked life and, then, life mimicked fiction? Had this university professor held Jenny Kane's ""head beneath the waters of the Chesapeake Bay until she drowned,"" Down by the Back River Light?

216 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2006

About the author

Ann Davis began her writing career late in life. She is the mother of three and grandmother of six. She and her husband live in an old Victorian house in Hampton, Virginia. Her first book is a historical fiction aboout her hometown during WWII. Ann likes to write fiction, but finds truth is often stranger than fiction. She insists the characters and situations in her books that are most unbelievable, are what is true in them.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it because it took place here in Hampton, VA. I was familiar with the places, and the names to an extent. Contains a lot of court room chat, but doesn't try to sway the reader one way or another.