On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard, wife of prominent Cleveland osteopath Dr. Sam Sheppard, is bludgeoned to death. Prudence Holmes is a rebellious, creative, six-year-old living in nearby, ultra-conservative Bexley, Oh, when her father becomes obsessed with the "crime of the century" leading a group of neighbors working to bring Sheppard to justice. The author joins her father on this crusade--it becomes the happiest time of her life, and the crime haunts them both for the rest of their days.Prudence (or Tina, her preferred name) becomes an existential, dateless teenager, dreaming of acting on Broadway and discussing literature in Parisian salons, while her bigoted mother forces her through charm school and society functions. Finally escaping Ohio, she heads to Carnegie Mellon to study acting, catch up with the sixties, and embark on the quest to become both sexy and an artiste. After graduating, she finally makes it to New York, finding employment driving a taxi, babysitting, and,...

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