RANCHO MIRAGE. An American Tragedy of Manners, Madness, and Murder

Hardback. The crime at the heart of this book, the murder of wealthy businessman Robert Sand at an exclusive residential country club near Palm Springs, is a study in complexity and moral ambiguity that cuts to the quick of fin de siecle America. The murder, the investigation complicated by a bizarre series of reported rapes and abduction of the beautiful Mrs. Sand - and the eventual trial of Mrs. Sand for murder, make up one of the strangest and most telling true crime stories. Illus. 366pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw