Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Question (murder, alive, defense)
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I just finished reading Midnight after having visited the beautiful city of Savannah in January. So my question is why did the police and prosecutor think Jim Williams planned to kill Danny Handsford (premeditated?) Williams, of course, said it was self defense. What I can't seem to figure out is if it was premeditated murder, what was the motive?
I just finished reading Midnight after having visited the beautiful city of Savannah in January. So my question is why did the police and prosecutor think Jim Williams planned to kill Danny Handsford (premeditated?) Williams, of course, said it was self defense. What I can't seem to figure out is if it was premeditated murder, what was the motive?
I don't think it was premeditated. If it was, maybe a motive was to shut him up about something? Not sure what it could have been, though. Danny did drugs, so Jim might have felt threatened, as he said, if he was really high and out of his mind. The only two people who really know are dead.
Great book. Movie was OK, but they took some liberties with it, as Hollywood always does. The weirdest was giving the author a girlfriend, when it was quite obvious ithat he is a gay man. Maybe in the 1990s they made that decision because being gay still wasn't quite the big yawn it is now
I worked with a woman in NYC who came from Savannah. She knew some of the people and said the book was a pretty accurate depiction of her city.
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I loved that book, had to continually remind myself that it wasn't fiction. Even a very much reading averse long time friend of mine read it on my suggestion and admitted he liked it. Might have to reread it, I forgot some of the subplots it contains. Definitely a town I need to visit at least once.
I have to say, Savannah is probably the most beautiful town I have ever visited (including Woodstock, Vermont.) I should have read Midnight before I visited Savannah. Oh well. I did visit Bonaventure Cemetery and historic home.
It's funny but I remember reading the book years ago shortly after it came out. I was enthralled with it. I even went to Savannah and toured the Mercer House. I loved the book but now, so many years later, I can't remember much. Ijust remember being swept up into the book. I never did see the movie.
It’s been awhile since I read the book or saw the movie. I wish I had gone to Club One before Chablis died. Anyway, I don’t think the killing was premeditated. Weren’t there several retrials? If the murder wasn’t in self defense, it probably would have been a slam dunk conviction.
Not sure if anyone directly involved is still alive now, and what they would say about it in light of modern mores. The “bachelors” are all out of the closet in abundance now, so there’s not a likelihood of the threat of exposure.
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