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The Sinners All Bow

Kate Winkler Dawson’s deftly handled The Sinners All Bow examines the birth of the true crime genre and the murder that inspired The Scarlet Letter.

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Review of ‘The Sinners All Bow’

On the morning of December 21, 1832, a Fall River, Rhode Island, man made a dark discovery while crossing the fields of his farm: The body of 30-year-old mill worker Sarah Cornell hung from a pole near a haystack. Word spread quickly through the New England town, the tragedy amplified by the revelations that the…

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