{"product_id":"springtime-for-sophie-richard-h-underwood-9781945049002","title":"Springtime for Sophie: Murder and Madness in a Connecticut Mill Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard H. Underwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945049006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945049002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Richard H. Underwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520886915327,"sku":"9781945049002","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8eff0916-18a0-494e-b8e8-ad1e3c6b5d67.jpg?v=1762887574","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/springtime-for-sophie-richard-h-underwood-9781945049002","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}