The Devil's Daughter
The Devil's Daughter
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San Francisco in the 'eighties---the days of the Barbary Coast and the Comstock Lode, when fortunes were made and spent overnight, when the veneer of newly bought sophistication lay thin and sparkling over the raw passions of the frontier.
Into this turbulent scene came Jessica Roux, auburn-haired, sensuously graceful, with emotions so tempestuous and a personality so enigmatic and alluring that she was know as the "Devil's Daughter."
Her adversary was ex-Senator Lew Hagerman, powerful and ruthless. One Of California's multimillionaires, he was, she claimed, her husband by a secret marriage. Her charge against him was adultery with a seventeen-year-old girl.
Pitted against the powerful financial and political figures that surrounded Hagerman was former was former State Chief Justice Mark Trumbull, a giant of a man. Reluctant at first to defend the Devil's Daughter, he found himself yielding to an attraction he could neither comprehend nor withstand.
In a legal battle of increasing bitterness and drama, the testimony piled scandal onto shock. The colorful parade of witnesses ranged from the pinnacles of San Francisco society to the dregs of the dock-are underworld, penetrating even into the dark workings of sorcery and voodoo.
The outcome was ruin for some, triumph for other. Justice, truth? The reader must decide what was fact and what was fantasy in the swirling excitement of the legend surrounding the Devil's Daughter.
