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“And I never stop believin' your smile Even though it didn't stay, it was all worthwhile Yes, you're the best thing in my life I can recall, oh You and me we had it all You and me we had it all.”
- The Rolling Stones
Memories linger but time moves on near Quiet Dell, West Virginia (on WV Route 310 near Fairmont).
Author Jayne Anne Phillips explains why she had to write QUIET DELL, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widows.
Learn more about Quiet Dell, available wherever books are sold Oct. 15th.
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READ THE BOOK STEPHEN KING CALLS "THE NOVEL OF THE YEAR
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It’s the story of a serial killer’s crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.
- Stephen King
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"The Angelic Core of the Dark World"
From one of America’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers comes a chilling, spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widows--Quiet Dell.
Author Jayne Anne Phillips has been haunted by this true story for more than four decades. On her webpage, Phillips writes at the beginning of a note entitled "Concerning Quiet Dell:"
My new novel, Quiet Dell, concerns an actual 1931 serial murder committed in a hamlet of the same name, near my hometown in West Virginia. A con-man led a double life, courted “wealthy” middle-aged widows through matrimonial agencies, and plotted to kill, supposedly for financial gain. He imprisoned and murdered an Illinois widow, Asta Eicher, her three children, who were 14, 12, and 9, and a Massachusetts divorcee, all of whom came to Quiet Dell willingly. The names of the characters whose lives the crime claimed or influenced are real: their thoughts, perceptions, and relationships are imagined. Their letters, the trial transcript, and various excerpted newspaper articles are quoted exactly from original documents. The tragedy preoccupied a Depression era nation for months. Quiet Dell, though it does not dwell on the murders themselves, makes real the world in which they happened, beginning the year previous to the murders and concluding with the murderer’s execution and its aftermath. A coda ends the story at the graves of the children, in whom the novel finds “the angelic core of the dark world.”
You can see more of Phillips' Quiet Dell photo gallery here.
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