Cold morning

Description:

"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two years to arrest a suspect. Bruno Richard Hauptmann is caught passing one of the marked ransom bills...Did this immigrant carpenter really commit the crime? Alone? Observant sometime-sleuth Edna is not so sure."--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Trials (Kidnapping),  Kidnapping,  Trials (Murder),  Investigation,  Kidnapping, 1932,  Murder,  Fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general

People: Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1899-1936),  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1930-1932),  Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974),  Edna Ferber (1887-1968)

Places: New Jersey,  Hopewell