01708cam a2200325 4500 388572946 TxAuBib 20170607120000.0 040130s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004043818 9780385510431 $27.95 0385510438 $27.95 DLC DLC WiMaMI TxAuBib Grisham, John. The last juror / John Grisham. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2004. 355 p. ; 25 cm. In 1970, one of Mississipi's most colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the suprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when he was found guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison, but in Mississipi , in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life" and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County and the retribution began. AR,, 6.8, 19.0. 20070321. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Newspaper publishing Fiction. Ex-convicts. Revenge Fiction. Jury Fiction. Trials (Homicide) Fiction. Legal stories. Thrillers (Fiction.)