Bibliograph

Dead Weight, based on a true story, Batt Humphreys

Type

Label

Dead Weight, based on a true story, Batt Humphreys

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dead Weight

Oclc number

435420478

Responsibility statement

Batt Humphreys

Sub title

based on a true story

Summary

"Charleston, South Carolina in 1910 is the scene of a true story. There is a trial in the town, a triangle of animosities. A Jewish merchant murdered, a black man accused and a white populace primed for a hanging. A reporter from New York assigned to cover a story which would seem to be a fait accompli. The outsider's view of Charleston just after the turn of the century, still clinging to a cultural past and caught in the racial realities of the time, brings a Menckenesque perspective to a plot that is anything but a simple tale of racial wrongdoing."--Publisher marketing

Target audience

adult

Creator