Down by the Back River Light : The Sensational 1931 Murder Trial of Professor Kane

When the shadow of the Back River Light fell on Sash Kane, the scion of a Pennsylvania family, newspapers up and down the East Coast reported all the details of Elizabeth City Countys murder case of the century. The ""other woman,"" Kanes autobiographical sketch, and the Dreiser novel, banned in Boston, found in Kanes Roadster, was the stuff that sold papers. Had fiction mimicked life and, then, life mimicked fiction? Had this university professor held Jenny Kanes ""head beneath the waters of the Chesapeake Bay until she drowned,"" Down by the Back River Light?