The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield. Based On A Great Insurance Swindle -- And A Woman

OSCAR MICHEAUX

Publication: Book Supply Company, 1946, New York

First edition. Deluxe edition. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light restoration at top of spine. This is a daring novel filled with action, adventure, murder, and suspense. First there is Lonnie Spellman, a black man who is on trial for his life, charged with raping a white woman. Then Isadore Zacarrio, a Jew, is found murdered ... "Scarface" Johnson, a black man, is accused of murdering Zacarrio .... robbing him, placing his dead body in a trunk and shipping it to an address in Virginia. Walter Le Baron is on the trail of Scarface when he meets Dorothy Stanfield in Memphis. Dorothy is the victim, indirectly, of the most mysterious and sensational swindle that ever occurred in Memphis.

Inventory Number: 8557