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Paula Moore won the 1987 Frank Waters Fiction Award from New Mexico State University. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in several literary journals, and her first book, One Man's Word: A Seven-Decade Personal History was published in 1990 after winning the 1989 NMSU Book Award. She holds an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. Retired from New Mexico State University as executive assistant to the president, Moore and her husband live in Dona Ana County, N.M.
Paula Moore
Cricket in the Web
June 01, 2008
by Paula Moore
Editor's Note: The University of New Mexico Press released Paula Moore's Cricket in the Web on March 31, 2008, in conjunction with the anniversary of the notorious and still-unsolved murder of a Las Cruces waitress, Cricket Coogler, in 1949. This excerpt is taken from the introduction to the book, which you can learn more about at www.unmpress.com.
In an old aerial photograph of the City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, the eye is drawn instantly to the largest and most noticeable structure in 1949—the Doña Ana County Courthouse, a gleaming white symbol of justice. Trials and grand jury hearings were held in its courtrooms, and it contained the county jail. The sheriff's small corner office managed to accommodate a desk for state police business.
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