The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel ebook

by Bland Simpson

As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901.

The University of North Carolina Press. The mystery of beautiful Nell Cropsey : a nonfiction novel, by Bland Simpson. p. cm. ISBN 0-8078-212 (alk. paper).

The non-fiction novel is an otherwise loosely defined and flexible genre

The non-fiction novel is an otherwise loosely defined and flexible genre. The genre is sometimes referred to using the slang term "faction", a portmanteau of the words fact and fiction. YouTube Encyclopedic. Later works classified as non-fiction novels include The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel by Bland Simpson, published in 1993, which tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901.

Bland Simpson writes of a small town tragedy with words so vivid and powerful that you see, smell, hear, and taste these people and this era in time. Tim McLaurin, author of Keeper of the Moon. The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey begs to be set to music

Bland Simpson writes of a small town tragedy with words so vivid and powerful that you see, smell, hear, and taste these people and this era in time. The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey begs to be set to music. Haunting and elegiac as a folk ballad, the voices intertwine-soprano, tenor, and bass-in a blend of tragic mystery and raw pain. Margaret Maron, author of Bootlegger's Daughter.

As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the . Nonfiction' recreation of events surrounding 1901 disappearance of Elizabeth City, NC 19-year-old Nell Cropsey.

As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside. The facts of the book are nonfiction, with the only apparent fictional recreation some first-person omniscient thoughts by some of the main characters. The mystery, in real life and in the book, is not solved at the end, by the way, which leaves you torn between wanting to know who really did it, and enjoying the speculation about who may have done it and why and how.

Later works classified as non-fiction novels include The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel (1993) by Bland Simpson, which tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of 19-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901; In the Time of the Butterflies (1995) by Julia Alvarez, which fictionalizes the lives. I Married Wyatt Earp. After her husband Wyatt Earp's death, Josephine Earp sought to get her own life story published.

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As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to search for her, and the case immediately became a national sensation. Bland Simpson, who first heard the tale as an Elizabeth City schoolboy, weaves this true story into a colorful nonfiction account, told in three first-person voices: Nell's sister Ollie; famous newspaper editor W. O. Saunders, who covered the case as a young reporter; and Jim Wilcox, Nell's beau, who was implicated in the case. Nell and Jim's romance, her disappearance, the great search, the trials, and their aftermath are artfully reconstructed from interviews, court records, and newspaper accounts. Word spread like that into the swamps where the slaves had run, where convicts had run--mightn't Nell Cropsey run there too? Back deep toward the lake at the heart of the great Swamp, where the ghost of an Indian girl searched each night for her lost lover, by firefly lamp, gliding in her white canoe.And word spread far beyond those low tidelands, as the dailies in the big Eastern cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia and New York played up the mystery til Nell Cropsey and Jim Wilcox were the talk of the nation and the booming little river port Elizabeth City was suddenly on the map.-->

Wooden Purple Romeo

It's sad enough when two young unrequited lovers take their own lives in the classic Shakespearean sense but when a young girl is murdered like this and the killer never confesses one has to ask why? Why such a sad loss of life? Why this kind of curse on people simply looking for a better life from the urban blight of turn of the century New York?
WHY did the loss of her life sadly affect so many people afterward? Her sister Ollie, died in the house of cancer later, while no one ever confessed to taking poor Nell's life. Ollie's suitor then takes his own , as does Nell's suitor Jim (whom never confessed yet served time as the convicted murderer); and their brother, years later drank poison in front of his own wife and child. And still, one has to ask WHY? Why is the world so cruel? Why do such horrible things happen to good people? Why is it some of us are spared and others suffer so horribly?

Why did a beautiful Nineteen year old girl like this, with her whole life ahead of her, have to die in the blink of an eye, nearing the holiday season on one freezing November day in 1901? Why did her whole family suffer so tremendously afterword? Everything about this book makes any conscientious person ask these questions of themselves and if anything, ponder that there must be a much more planned, spiritual meaning beyond our comprehension to why God allows such things to happen in our world.

If anything after reading this book, these questions will haunt your conscience long after turning the last page in the same way that perhaps the memories of Nell and her sister Ollie haunt their youthful home like two young eternal chanteuse 's singing a sojourn soliloquy until someone finally tells the truth.....

Hi_Jacker

My dad moved to Riverside Rd. a couple of years ago & this is really the only book written on this unsolved mystery. I get that it's fiction based on a real life story, but the witting is so bad that I can't get past page 5. My note to the author wold be to please hire a good editor and publish a second edition.

Kriau

THIS was the murder case of the 20th century. Journalists from all over the country flocked to the little town of Elizabeth City, NC to follow the trial. The Naval Auxiliary (National Guard) had to be mobilized to prevent mobs from lynching the suspect. To this day, the facts are not certain, but opinions are strong.

The Rollers of Vildar

Reads luck a "whodunnit" crime novel, yet it is factual. Cleverly written. Its a fun read!

Hudora

Well written. I live in North Carolina and I like history so its is a good book about local history.

Pruster

Leaves one with more questions..it did happen a long time ago.

Bralore

I didn't care for the writing style. It was hard to follow and I lost interest. I will try to pick it up one more time, but it just seems to jump around too much.

A quick, easy read. Interesting story.