Murder in the Adirondacks: Fully

Over 100 years ago, the Chester Gillette Grace Brown murder case was considered the trial of the century. The case became the basis for Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel An American Tragedy and the movie A Place in the Sun, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Revisit the tragedy at Big Moose Lake and the ensuing trial in this fully revised and expanded edition of the definitive book about the Gillette Brown murder.In the 30 years since the best-selling Murder in the Adirondacks was written, author Craig Brandon has continued to research the Gillette Brown murder case. This revised and expanded edition is the culmination of those decades of work. Included in this new edition are over 50 new photographs and information from Chester Gillette’s prison diary, discovered after the original publication of Murder in the Adirondacks.

Craig Brandon is the author of eight books. He won the silver award in the education category from Foreward Review’s book of the year competition in 2011. His writing has also earned him the Charles Stewart Mott Award and first prize in education reporting by the Education Writers Association. He has also won awards from the National School Boards Association, the Golden Apple Award from the New York State United Teachers, and the Associated Press, Gannett Newspapers, and the Hearst Newspapers. He is currently retired and lives on Robert Frost Mountain in the Green Mountains National Forest in Ripton, Vermont, with his wife Jean, and is working on new writing projects. Other books by Brandon include The Prison Diaries and Letters of Chester Gillette, Richard W. Couper Press (2007) (with Jack Sherman); The Love Letters of Grace Brown and Chester Gillette, Surry Cottage Books (2006); The Electric Chair, An Unnatural American History, McFarland and Co. (1999); Monadnock: More than a Mountain, Surry Cottage Books, (2007); The Five Year Party, BenBella Books (2010), Good Night Irene, Stories and Photos about the Tropical Storm that Devastated Vermont, the Catskills and the Berkshires, Surry Cottage Books (2012) (with Michael Ryan and Nicole Garman) and Stratham at 300 Surry Cottage Books (2014.)