Furious Hours

"Furious Hours" was an interesting book. In the 1970s, people around the Reverend Willie Maxwell kept dropping like flies. Curiously enough, he had life insurance policies on all of them.
Hmmm...
Police couldn't prove anything, the causes of death were inconclusive, but friends and relatives were getting frustrated at how he kept getting away with murder. So one of them killed him at the funeral of his stepdaughter, in front of 300 witnesses. Ironically enough, the same lawyer who defended Maxwell defended his murderer, and got him off on an insanity plea.
Harper Lee was struggling to write a second book, a follow up to "To Kill a Mockingbird". When she heard about the trial, she traveled to the town near her hometown and watched, interviewed people, did research and compiled notes. Everyone thought her second book would be forthcoming, but it never appeared. It's a shame, I would have loved to have read what she did with this story.