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Midnight in the Garden of East Texas

By Skip Hollandsworth · Texas Monthly · January 1998

Midnight in the Garden of East Texas

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"In sleepy Carthage a rich, haughty widow disappears, and nobody seems to notice. When she turns up dead, everybody seems to feel sympathy for the nice young man who killed her."

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