A Jury of Her Peers a.k.a Let's Help Our Oppressed Sister Get Away with Murder

So the plot of this story was pretty good. It's a classic murder mystery, and while the men, who are trained police officers, go looking for evidence, the women find the actual evidence because they are women and understand the mind of the suspect. They know what it feels to be an oppressed woman living in a society of men and they know why the suspect murdered her husband and why she did it with a rope when there was a gun available. So far so good. The women have solved the murder mystery confirming that the prime suspect did indeed have motive to kill her husband, but then the story takes an interesting turn. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters relate so much Mrs. Wright, the suspect, that they decide not to tell their husbands the about the evidence they found that would surely land Mrs. Wright in jail. What? This woman, like many women at the time, is clearly oppressed and angry at her husband. She is also very clearly INSANE. A lot of people feel like they have been treated wrongly and are angry. Not a lot of people go around murdering their spouses in cold blood. The idea that these two women feel that Mrs. Wright was justified in her actions indicates that they too are probably crazy and need to be sent to an asylum before they too murder their husbands. There are plenty of things that are illegal but not necessarily immoral, interfering with a murder investigation which is already on the right track to convicting the guilty murderer is not one of those things. I understand the point that is trying to be made about women and how they are being oppressed by men, I just think that a feminist author should think before writing about a couple of women who help cover up a murder.