The face of fear

the long version

"The Face Of Fear is an absorbing novel of present-day" (1950s) "Southern life. Martha Poindexter, a sharp-tongued newspaper woman, is its heroine. For many varied reasons, Sadie Eaton was disliked, even hated, by some of her fellow citizens. But when she is done to death and the murderer is not found immediatley, the actions and reactions of Eatonville's people are various and violent, pinioned as they all are with fear." Taken from then dust jact flaps of the first edition.