This is your audiobook for June. Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” was first published in 1917 in Every Week magazine. It was loosely based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack and subsequent trial, which Glaspell had covered as a journalist. It is considered notable both as an early example of women detectives using psychology to solve a case, and as a high point of American crime fiction published during the first world war. It was later adapted in the 1950s for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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