Jim Williams had it all: style, culture, charisma, and sophistication. As a premier antiques dealer in Savannah, he mingled with celebrities, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Rockefellers, who came to admire his extraordinary treasures. His legacy thrust Savannah into the national spotlight and transformed the genteel city into a tourist mecca. But three decades of hard work came crashing down the night he shot Danny Hansford, his wild young lover. Jim Williams stood trial four times over the next decade for premeditated murder. Today, tourists flock to Mercer House to see the gorgeous mansion depicted in Clint Eastwood's movie and the book from which it was made--Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--where flamboyant designer and antiques dealer Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey) killed Danny Hansford (Jude Law). While the movie and book portrayed the natives of Savannah as remarkably decadent, exotic characters, they missed the surprising dark side of Jim Williams himself. He was a smooth predator whose crimes could have put him behind bars long before the death of Danny Hansford. After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the newly revised and expanded version of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling true account of the crime, which includes crucial testimony recreating the courtroom drama between a gifted prosecutor and a brilliant defense attorney as they battle over the future of a self-made aristocrat. More than 40 photos and revealing insider interviews bring new life to the vivid cast of characters in this unique southern crime story Review Wall St. Journal Number 1 Best-Selling Nonfiction eBook, May 6, 2012 Wall St. Journal Number 8 Best-Selling Nonfiction eBook, December 23, 2011 Savannahnow.com "Provocative summer read." July 13, 2013 "I suspect there are a good many readers who likemyself savored the pleasures, on the screen or on the printed page, of JohnBerendt's Midnight in the Garden of Goodand Evil . Yet even after all of the seductive, artful presentation weren'tyou left hanging just a bit? Didn't you want to get closer to the truth thanHollywood or Berendt's atmospherics allowed? I did, but I never thought I'd getthere until I learned about and read Marilyn Bardsley's remarkably well-toldexposition of the truth and the evidence behind the intrigue. Your questionswill be answered." - Steve Windwalker Frank "Sonny" Seiler says he can't vouch for the "dirt she dug up on my client," referring to Bardsley's chapters on Williams' life before the shooting. However, the work she did on the trials, Seiler said, is "on the money." - The Daily Report Online Marilyn Bardsley is a respected expert on serial killers and the editor of RosettaBooks' bestselling Crimescape® series, as well as the former executive editor and founder of Time Warner's Crime Library, a premier true crime website. She has written about some of the most famous serial killers, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler, and Charles Manson. Her work is also considered an important resource for law enforcement; her feature reporting on child murder cases was mandatory reading for the police team assigned to the Green River serial murders. Marilyn J. Bardsley is the editor of Crimescape® books. Crimescape books is a collection of compelling short nonfiction crime books by the best true crime authors in the business, many of whose books have been made into major motion pictures. Crimescape short nonfiction books are designed to give the reader all the information needed to understand everything relevant to the story. One thing that differentiates Crimescape books from other true crime books is that our authors are selected for their experience in crime investigation, whether as a police detective, investigative reporter, forensics professional or criminal psychologist. Crimescape authors are good story tellers. Follow us as we expand our list of compelling true crime e-books at crimescape.com/books Marilyn J. Bardsley's bestselling book, After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, is now in paperback and well as e-book formats. Learn more at aftermidnightbook.com
