Dimensions
129 x 198 x 29mm
Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children begins to receive seductive letters from a man named Harry Powers, who promises to marry her and to care for her and her children. Asta agrees to go with him to West Virginia to see his house there, and then to bring her children. Weeks later, all are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, is sent to cover the case. Trying to understand what lies behind the tragedy of this family, she is drawn deeper and deeper into the case and becomes determined to make sure that Powers is convicted.