Relying on primary source documents and painstaking research, award-winning novelist Elaine Alphin tells the true story of justice undone in America. It marks a turning point in the history of racial and religious hatred in America, leading directly to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and to the rebirth of the modern Ku Klux Klan. The prosecution of Leo Frank was front-page news for two years, and Frank's lynching is still one of the most controversial incidents of the twentieth century. Spurred on by the media frenzy and prejudices of the time, the detectives made Frank their prime suspect, one whose conviction would soothe the city's anger over the death of a young white girl. Then they paid a visit to Leo Frank, the factory's superintendent, who was both a northerner and a Jew. Police arrested the watchman, but they weren't satisfied that he was the killer. A black watchman found Mary's body brutally beaten and raped. Following in the footsteps of the likes of The Talented Mr Ripley, Elaine Marie Alphins novel Counterfeit Son sees a young man who tries to con a family. Elaine Marie Alphin, Edgar-winning Counterfeit Son There are a lot of books out there on revision, but this is the only one I've. But first she stopped at the pencil factory where she worked to pick up her paycheck. Was an innocent man wrongly accused of murder? On April 26, 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan planned to meet friends at a parade in Atlanta, Georgia.
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