MY BROTHER'S KEEPER

Hardback. Dr. Sam Sheppard's brother tells the inside story of what happens to a family, a community, and American justice in the grip of mass hysteria. "I am the brother of a convicted murderer." Thus Dr. Stephen Sheppard - brother of Dr. Sam Sheppard, convicted in Cleveland's most sensational murder trial - begins this book. It is a story of the periods of soaring hope and crushing defeat that took place in the family's 10yrs of constant struggle to remedy what they regarded as a miscarriage of justice. Yet in no sense is this book a brief for Sam Sheppard's innocence, nor is it an outpouring of bitterness against the courts, the press, or the law. And while it is not sensationally written, it does present an uncompromising picture of what happens to justice and public officials under the whiplash of a sensational press and mass hysteria. Despite the millions of words printed about the Sheppard case in the world's press, there was much that was never printed - never known - that is set here for the first time. A story of men and women, and of law and violence - and of a faith that never wavered. 305pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp., v. sl. slanted sp. o/w Nr. Vg. in G. only dw.