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The rope : a true story of murder, heroism, and the dawn of the NAACP

Summary: "In the seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective's first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured for the first time. The brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forces: religious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and America's Jim Crow racial violence. Key players include the unconventional detective Ray Schindler, the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann, the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick, the mysterious 'sting artist,' Carl Neumeister, the crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781982114039
ISBN: 1982114037
Physical Description: print
xii, 322 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York ; 37 INK, Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Copyright: ©2021

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Black diamond -- The flower -- A new Eden -- Blood under a black skin -- The Wanamassa -- Burn scars -- 19 1/2 Atkins Avenue -- Came the men -- The cry of humanity -- Gather my race in my arms -- A Negro's crime -- The secret plan -- A guilty mind -- Grace Foster -- My besetting sin -- Turn our faces to the world -- A balance of goodness and evil -- The greenhouse -- What kind of fellow he was -- Afraid of what they might find -- The agonies of the damned -- Nobody seen me do it -- The watchtower -- Two coffins -- The hellhound -- The hands of parties unknown -- Frog James -- The rope -- Immoral thoughts and expressions -- Angels could do no more -- Rope and coal oil -- The premonition -- Once to every man and nation -- Still he lay in jail -- What was her name? -- On the square -- "It won't bring her back" -- The fortress -- The Lord has willed it so.