Phillip Singer An Accounting Author:Jon Wiles A dramatic 1957 murder trial in Gainesville, Florida, examines the role of a misfit in a closed southern society. The defendant, a Jewish, deaf man, stands accused of murdering the wife of the town's prosecutor. The author, a boy in Gainesville during the time of the trial, looks beyond the trial transcripts by exploring Phillip Singer's life an... more »d what led him to commit the crime.« less