THE INNOCENCE OF JOAN LITTLE. A Southern Mystery.

Hardback, 1st US edition. In the summer of 1974, the body of a white jailer, Clarence Alligood, was discovered in a cell in North Carolina's Beaufort County Jail. A black prisoner was missing. Alligood had ice pick wounds around his neck and heart; he was naked from the waist down and there was semen on his leg. A week later, the black prisoner, Joan Little, surrendered, claiming that she had acted in self-defence against sexual assault. Those were the facts...Or were they? The all purpose cause celebre had civil rights activists, feminists, intellectuals, and opponents of the death penalty cheering in the wings. Yet, despite the blaze of publicity, the case of Joan Little remains a mystery. 340pp. 8vo. h/back. Nr. F. in Vg+ pcdw.