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[ Edition: First ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: Random House Pub Date: 1/13/1994 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 400

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story is a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city is certain to become a modern classic.

New York: Random House, Inc., 1994. 1st Printing. Decorative Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. J.K. Lambert (Design). 388 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Slightly skewed spine.

Random House, 1994 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

This book is collectible First edition printing. Hard bound book, hardcover. Used copy in very good condition.

Random House, January 1994. Reprint. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Spine leaning; else, near fine.

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collectible book. Very minor closed tear on front top edge of DJ, else Fine. Book release date as provided by Ramdom House on back flap 1/94. An American classic in which New Yorker John Berendt relates his experiences among Savannah, Georgia's social elite and sociably eccentric all while contemplating the circumstances of a prominent antique dealer's enigmatic involvement in a murder.This book is a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city is certain to become a modern classic.

NY: Random House, 1994 Cloth. Fine+/Fine. First American Edition ???. Major Publisher. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book is pristine with only very light shelf edge wear on the dust jacket. Does not have a price on the dust jacket flap, nor does it state that it is a first edition or list the printing numbers. It was printed in the United States and not Canada..

New York: Random House, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex." These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed -- and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired -- in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.388p..

New York: Random House, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. 388pp. Cocked spine and bumped edges thus very good in a near fine dust jacket with some edgewear. Basis for the 1997 film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey.