Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

This narrative nonfiction portrait of Savannah centers on the antique dealer Jim Williams, his Mercer House parties, and the shooting of a young man that produces a sequence of trials. Around that case Berendt places a chorus of local figures: a drag performer, a voodoo priestess consulted in a cemetery, a lawyer, society hostesses, and eccentrics who treat the city as a closed theater. The visitor-narrator watches manners, restoration, and rumor more than he drives the action. The book is a true-crime social chronicle, not a novel of invented persons and not a guidebook alone.

Bound in blocked vinyl-coated yellow paper with an inset printed black & white paper label. Plain slipcase.