Mrs. Culp's Diary, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1937

She finds her library book quite absorbing

Mrs. Culp stayed home all day today, sewing curtains and reading a seven-day book from the public library. It was Crucible by the popular writer Ben Ames Williams, the story of a perfectly ordinary middle-class family whose world is turned upside down when a woman is found murdered in the husband’s office. The novel explores how the accusation unravels …