The sinners all bow: two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne
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"On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Ephraim Avery were uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah's death a suicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true crime narrative, Fall River. The murder divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter--but questions linger to this day about what really led to Sarah Cornell's death. Until now. In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements -- including forensic knot analysis, archival deep dives, and criminal profiling--Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams's research to find out what really happened and bring justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given"--
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Cornell, Sarah Maria, -- 1802-1832.
Criminal investigation.
Forensic sciences.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864. -- Scarlet letter.
Murder -- Massachusetts -- Fall River -- History -- 19th century.
Murder -- Rhode Island -- History -- 19th century.
Prynne, Hester -- (Fictitious character)
Williams, C. R. -- (Catherine Read), -- 1790-1872. -- Fall River.
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Dawson, K. W. (2025). The sinners all bow: two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne. First large print edition. Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Dawson, Kate Winkler. 2025. The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne. Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Dawson, Kate Winkler, The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne. Random House Large Print, 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Dawson, Kate Winkler. The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne. First large print edition. Random House Large Print, 2025.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The advocates -- The Durfee farm -- Sarah Maria -- Rash violence -- Body of evidence -- "If I am missing" -- The sinners -- The clove hitch -- The totality of tales -- The witnesses -- The letters -- The hitch -- Wicked creatures. | |
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