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What Drives Good People to Do Something Bad? As terrible revelations come to light, four people join together to commit an unspeakable act… When a member of the privileged upper class frames a Polish immigrant for a socialite’s murder in 1920s Akron, the heart-pounding events that follow... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Millie Jablonski: Albo's wife, mother to Nick and Antonia
- Antonia Jablonski: Sister to Nick Jablonski, daughter of Millie and Albo
- Harriet Weaver: Nick's wife
- Erna Stucke: Kurt Becker's aunt
- Russell Hollingsworth Cantrell: bad guy extraordinaire
- Headmistress Kruger: Woman who tortured Voigt at the orphanage
- Miss Owens: Nick's high school English teacher
- Marion White: family friend of the Cantrell's
- Kurt Becker: son of Marta; nephew of Erna; friends with Nick and Charlie
- Barbara Cantrell: Russell's mother
- Nickels Jablonski: Albert Henrik Jablonski, Jr., Algo and Millie's son
- Grace Allerton: Charlie's wife
- Charlie O'Brien: friends with Kurt and Nick
- Bertie Henry: son of Nick and Harriet; full name is Albert Jablonski Henry
- Louis Voigt: henchman to Russell Cantrell
- Marta Becker: Kurt's mother and sister to Erna Stucke
- Stephen Lyle: City Councilman
- Albo Jablonski: father to Nick and Antonia; surrogate father to Kurt and Charlie; husband of Millie
- William Oxnard: attorney
- Ellwood Hollingsworth Cantrell: Russell Cantrell's father
- Elizabeth Barnett: Russell's wife
- George Barton: Add a description of this character.
- John Warnick
- Earl
- Webster
- Mary
- Sarah
- Mike
- Robert Levin
- Babe Ruth
- Harry Boyer
- Catherine Block
- Ralph
- Richard Stanley
- Belinda
- Rosemary
- Gary
- James Foster
- Victoria A. Brown
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
In that colorless time right before sunset, in the woods bordering the fairway, there was a glint, a flash of light, and the sound of someone struggling.
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