title: Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder And Madness In The Heart Of Georgia
author: Richard Hutto
description: <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><P class=MsoNormal><I>A Peculiar Tribe of People</I> is the sort of true crime that has wings This is one of those stories that, in many ways, truly is stranger than fiction. I simply could not put it down. <STRONG></STRONG><EM>January magazine, </EM>naming<I> A Peculiar Tribe </I>one of the twelve best nonfiction books of 2010</P><P class=MsoNormal>A southern grotesque that comes complete with stately mansions, murder most vile, forbidden sex, a pot-boiling trial and a denouement worthy of a Greek tragedy But wait, there's more! After being acquitted of murder, but convicted of sodomy and somehow finding another wife (18 years his senior), Burge stumbled into an ending that even Sophocles wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. <B></B>Bo Emerson, <I>Atlanta</I><I> Journal-Constitution</I></P><P class=MsoNormal>Rick Hutto's booka fascinating tale of murder and deceptionprovides a sobering glimpse into the prejudices and corruption of pre-civil rights Georgia. President Jimmy Carter</P><P class=MsoNormal>Hutto's book is a remarkable chronicle of Deep South scumbaggery... presented with all the insanity and loopy legality one expects from a mid-20th-century court drama in the Deep South... Hutto does a fine job of unearthing this story despite overwhelming resistance and the chasm of time. <EM>Flagpole </EM>magazine</P><DIV>A stunning glimpse into a world lost to the pages of history. With characters so deceptive, it takes a sleuth to identify pure evil. Hutto's book is a race to the finish! Nancy Grace</DIV><P class=MsoNormal>The 1960 murder of the wife of a Macon, Georgia, slumlord eager to climb the social ladder propels Hutto's real-life Southern gothic tale. . . . Hutto . . . goes into great detail describing [Chester] Burge's twisted family historyparticularly how it intersected with prominent Macon families, many of whom the author interviewedand the explosive court battle over Mary's murder. . . .[T]he story and its eccentric cast make this solid book worth the read. <I>Publishers Weekly</I> </P><P class=MsoNormal>A rich, insightful narrative with people straight out of a Flannery O'Connor novel, Richard Jay Hutto's <I>A Peculiar Tribe of People</I> is both compelling and brilliantly executed. A true-crime page-turner with as much grace, pizzazz and class as any Macon, Georgia, sunset. M. William Phelps, award-winning author of fifteen books, including <I>The Devil's Rooming House</I></P><P class=MsoNormal>This story, with its nexus of lust, race, and class set among the columned mansions of cotton-town segregation, oozes all that fertilizes Southern Gothicka Hutto dishes up the squalor in a writing style that gleams with the polish accorded heirloom silver. <EM>11th Hour</EM> </P><P class=MsoNormal>[A]n absorbing tale of greed, lust and assorted sordid outcomes that reads like the best fiction, yet is completely true... Every page in this terrific book reveals a new and interesting cast member. His rogues' gallery of characters, both male and female, should give a Hollywood talent agency's character actors fodder for award winning acting opportunities.... Hutto has produced a well-researched and absorbing book that never stoops to the cheap shot. Indeed, it is his classy writing and tone that keeps the story from meandering toward the tawdry side of the literary neighborhood, and guarantees that the reader will keep asking for more as pages are turned. <I>Rome</I> (GA) <I>News Tribune</I></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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