The Rope

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"In the seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective's first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured for the first time. The brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forces: religious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and America's Jim Crow racial violence. Key players include the unconventional detective Ray Schindler, the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann, the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick, the mysterious 'sting artist,' Carl Neumeister, the crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith"-- Provided by the publisher