Indiana Down: a novel of the Marion lynching

By Thomas Byrn

In a time of unspeakable racism, it became the most notorious lynching in American history. Marion, Indiana, August 7, 1930; two young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are dragged from jail, beaten, and hanged by a mob of angry whites. A third, James Cameron, barely escapes with his life.Shocked by the brutal crime -- the first in Indiana in some twenty-seven years -- State Attorney General James Ogden sends his best investigators to Marion to identify and arrest the mob leaders. In Marion the detectives find a town seething with fear and anger, in the grip of the powerful Indiana Ku Klux Klan, a town ready to explode again in violence at any moment. Walking a tightrope, the detectives arrest and indict ten men for the lynching, and their job seems to be done.But one investigator, "colored" Detective-Sergeant Theopolis Morris, realizes that things just don't add up, and refusing to back down, pushes the investigation past the limit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475254636
• ISBN13: 9781475254631
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"