Joe Odom (attorney)

[1] He came to prominence after his appearance as one of the main characters in John Berendt's 1994 true-crime book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

[5] In John Berendt's 1994 book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Odom was portrayed as the love interest of Mandy Nichols; however, Nancy Hillis, upon whom Nichols was based, stated that there was no romantic relationship between her and Odom, who was "not strictly heterosexual.

"[6] They performed music together only and owned a bar, Sweet Georgia Brown's, in Savannah's City Market.

[7][8] Odom was also friends with and a business partner of Emma Kelly, dubbed by Johnny Mercer as the "lady of 6,000 songs", who also appears in the book.

[9] Kelly and Odom opened Emma's, a piano bar in a former cotton warehouse on Savannah's River Street.

[7] He is buried in a family plot in Bull Creek Cemetery in his hometown of Claxton,[15] beside his parents.

Hamilton–Turner Inn , where Odom lived at the time of his death