A War-Time Wooing; a Story, by Captain Charles King

This came in the mail last week, a BookCrossing bookring. I didn't like it at first. Fred and Edie, I learned, are murderers. They fell in love with each other and Edie's husband was in the way. The two teamed up to kill him and be free to be together. Of course, it did not work out as they had planned and both Fred and Edie ended up in jail for murder.

Fred and Edie is based on a true story. Edie wrote letters to Fred and the trials of the two were heavily publicized; the author used these to create this book.

The book is written mostly as letters Edie wrote to Fred, with a few newspaper articles interspersed in the story. Most of the letters are the author's invention, but a few are actual letters written by Edie and all the newspaper articles are genuine.

I liked the book more as I read along. Edie and Fred were not glorified in the book, nor condemned, but, instead, were revealed to be real human beings, doing things that were both good and bad.