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About Linda Spalding
See more books from this Author(In the meantime, Spalding had become a critically acclaimed novelist and scholar (Mere, 2001, etc.), now married to Booker Prize–winning author Michael Ondaatje.) Spalding’s research supplements letters from Maryann about her early years and recent struggles, and snippets of news articles and tr...
| Read Full Review of Who Named the Knife: A Book o...Acker was convicted and their lives spun off in different directions until, 18 years later, Spalding unearthed the diary she had kept during the trial, contacted Acker and became entwined in an attempt to get Acker a new trial (the main witness against her has since confessed to the murder).
Jun 18 2007 | Read Full Review of Who Named the Knife: A Book o...In 1982, Linda Spalding was a juror in the Hawaii murder trial of Maryann Acker - until the judge, enraged at her five-minute tardiness one day, removed her from the case.
Oct 01 2007 | Read Full Review of Who Named the Knife: A Book o...