Overview
In the tranquil 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 detectiveās first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the first time.
Occurring exactly halfway between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the formal beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, the brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forcesāreligious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and Americaās Jim Crow racial violence.
History and true crime collide in this ācompelling and timelyā (Vanity Fair) murder mystery featuring characters as complex and colorful as those found in the best psychological thrillersāthe unconventional truth-seeking detective Ray Schindler; the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann; the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick; the mysterious āsting artist,ā Carl Neumeister; the indomitable crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith, who represented all the innocent and vulnerable children living in turn-of-the-century America.
āBrisk and cinematicā (The Wall Street Journal), The Rope is an important piece of history that gives a voice to the voiceless and resurrects a long-forgotten true crime story that speaks to the very divisions tearing at the nationās fabric today.
This book title, The Rope (A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP) - 9781982114039, ISBN: 9781982114039, by Alex Tresniowski, published by Simon & Schuster (February 1, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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