A Slaying Song Tonight Author:Fran Stewart 1932 - The Great Depression lingers on. Hoover is up for re-election. But a small-town murder trial gains national recognition and eclipses the presidential race. Already serving a life sentence for poisoning a state senator, Susannah Lou Packard is now on trial for slitting the throat of a state representative. How could such a quiet, demure,... more » unprepossession woman execute such heinous deeds?« less