With the devil's help : a true story of poverty, mental illness, and murder

Wooten, Neal (author.).

Summary: Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce.

Record details

ISBN: 9781639362400 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xii, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Crime, 2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- The men in black suits (1969) -- Pete meets Elsie (1926) -- Roy and Helen Helms (1970) -- Wedded bliss (1930) -- The family (1971) -- Like father, like son (1941) -- Life's a gas (1972) -- A brother's love (1956) -- Dinner and a movie (1973) -- Potato pact (1962) -- When in Rome (1974) -- Trial and error (1963) -- Raising cane (1975) -- Kilby Prison (1963) -- Take this job ... (1976) -- Just walk away (1965) -- The key to happiness (1977) -- On the lam (1966) -- Seasons change (1978) -- A new home (1969) -- Epilogue.