Murder at Asheville's Battery Park Hotel: The Search for Helen Clevenger's Killer

by Anne Chesky Smith

The words of a murderer. In 1936, Helen Clevenger's uncle discovered her bloodied body crumpled on the floor of her small room in Asheville's grand Battery Park Hotel. She had been shot through the chest. Buncombe County sheriff Laurence Brown, up for reelection, desperately searched for the white teenager's killer as the public clamored for answers. Even after Sheriff Brown secured a confession from a young Black man, many southerners feared that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540248720
• ISBN13: 9781540248725
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: History PR
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"