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-Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Just got it in hardcover at a book sale, I think it's supposed to be creepy.
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It's a great book but I wouldn't call it creepy. It's about a true crime in Savannah and is as much about the city itself as the murder. After the book was published there was a big increase in tourism for Savannah. I think you can still take the book tour there.
It also resulted in tour buses full of little old ladies going to gay nightclubs to see Lady Chablis' drag show.
If you hear someone talking about "The Book" in Savannah, this is the one they mean.
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Among memorable Savannahians depicted are singer/pianist Emma Kelly, "The Lady of 6,000 Songs" (so dubbed by Savannah songwriter Johnny Mercer); Joe Odom, a southern gentleman/lawyer who covers his bad checks with charm; an inventor (named Luther Driggers in the book) who possesses a vial of poison strong enough to kill the whole city if it were to infiltrate the water supply; Minerva, the Lowcountry "root doctor" who works spells for Jim Williams; Sonny Seiler, Williams's defense attorney and owner of Uga, the University of Georgia's renowned mascot; and The Lady Chablis, a drag queen who gleefully crashes an annual African American debutante ball.
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-New Georgia Encyclopedia