WIDOW'S WEB The True Story of a Little Rock beauty whose deadly wiles led to two murders and scandalized the entire state of Arkansas

Hardback. An alluring seductress spins a web of lies, murder, and sexual intrigue, ensnaring reporters, influential men, and finally the entire state of Arkansas. Mary Lee Orsini - a woman who kept the state of Arkansas - the people, the press, the police - alternating between sympathy and suspicion in a criminal drama. Mary Lee Orsini, the Little Rock Lady Macbeth whose attraction proved fatal for her husband (shot dead in his bed) and almost equally destructive for all the others whose paths she crossed: the defence lawyer who tried to help her and saw his wife murdered in the process; the prosecutor whose political career she ruined; the politically ambitious sheriff she manipulated into taking her side; the reporters she twisted around her perfectly manicured little finger. The author penetrates the incredible web of half-truths and sexual blackmail used by Orsini to stay - for months and months - a half step ahead of the law. Illus. 444pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage, particularly if shipped overseas.