Race Against Time: Hard-Boiled Mystery “vivid and unsettling” (New York

“vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books)

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Race Against Time: Hard-Boiled Mystery “vivid and unsettling” (New YorkOn June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the Mississippi Burning case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though the killers identities, including the sheriffs deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. It took forty one years before the mastermind was brought to