Jane Ammeson Times Correspondent

The evening before I took the "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" tour, a two-hour walking tour through Savannah, Georgia, visiting the locations mentioned in “The Book,” as it is referred to down here, it seemed only fitting that I should check into the Hamilton-Turner Inn on Lafayette Square.

In John Berendt's bestselling tome, which chronicles the eccentricities of this most southern of cities, the four-story, French Empire chateau built in 1873 was one of the places where the impoverished aristocrat Joe Odom, one of the book’s many unique characters, and his girlfriend, Mandy, lived. In the charming rascally way that epitomizes the lifestyle of Odom, he charged a fee for touring the house, which had fallen on hard times, when he didn’t even own

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