<P> Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is non-fiction work by John Berendt . The book, Berendt's first, was published in 1994 . It became a New York Times Best - Seller for 216 weeks following its debut and remains the longest - standing New York Times Best - Seller . </P> <P> The book was subsequently made into Clint Eastwood's 1997 film adaptation . It was also adapted as a Metabook in 2015 . </P> <P> Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is atmospherically Deep South coastal (Savannah, Georgia, Beaufort, South Carolina) and Southern Gothic in tone, depicting a wide range of eccentric personalities in and around the city of Savannah, Georgia . </P> <P> The story, unsettling and real, broke down the idea of the quintessential phenomenon of a true American city--only to reveal its quirks: its man walking an invisible dog; its voice of the drag queen; a high - society man in its elite community--all that, somehow, unravels a murder mystery . Virtually seeming like a novel and reading like a tale, the non-fictional story is about the real - life events surrounding the murder . </P>

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