A Jury of Her Peers

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When John Wright is found murdered in his isolated farmhouse, suspicion falls immediately on his wife, Minnie Wright. While the county attorney and sheriff search the house for evidence, two women—Martha Hale and Mrs. Peters—wait in the kitchen, gathering a few belongings for Minnie in jail.

The men dismiss the untidy kitchen, unfinished sewing, and other small details of domestic life as insignificant. But the women notice what the investigators overlook. As they piece together clues from Minnie's home and past, they begin to understand the lonely life she endured and what may have driven her to murder.

First published in 1917, Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers is a quietly suspenseful story of murder, marriage, justice, and the very different ways men and women can understand the same evidence. What begins as a search for a killer becomes a deeper question of who has the right to judge.