"30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author" -- Front cover

"Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at night. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex." These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed -- and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired -- in this utterly irresistible book. at once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the garden of good and evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a dozen mint juleps."-- Back cover

"Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1994"--Title page verso

Lambda Literary Award, 1995

Evening in Mercer house -- Destination unknown -- Sentimental gentleman -- Settling in -- Inventor -- Lady of six thousand songs -- Grand empress of Savannah -- Sweet Georgia Brown's -- Walking streak of sex -- It ain't braggin' if y'really done it -- News flash -- Gunplay -- Checks and balances -- Party of the year -- Civic duty -- Trial -- Hole in the floor -- Midnight in the garden of good and evil -- Lafayette square, we are here -- Sonny -- Notes on a rerun -- Pod -- Lunch -- Black minuet -- Talk of the town -- Another story -- Lucky number -- Glory -- And the angels sing