title: Unsolved: Murder in the Solid South
author: M B Spears
description: The most notorious unsolved murder in our state's fraught history went down in Darlington County in the 4th Judicial District of South Carolina in the dark of April 3, 1952. This book is a protest and an anniversary marker, written 63 years after the killing night. The recollections of many who experienced the crime and its investigation close up and variously have since been woven into UNSOLVED. These, along with one last startling revelation, are forthwith included in this 2018 Final Edition of UNSOLVED: A Murder in the Solid South. What difference, at this point, does an political murder from the past make? More than you might think. Old sins cast long shadows; no one can forget what will not be forgotten. M B Spears and her contemporaries had their lives changed by this crime and what followed it. As hope for closure evaporated, "normal" life shifted, showing them once and for all that they couldn't trust the manmade justice system as it existed in the Solid South. Among ordinary thinking people in the victim's church-going, Bible-believing, agricultural community, acceptance of entrenched local leaders crumbled into dust and was replaced by distrust of those who would defend the indefensible. Seeing the Pee Dee region from across the sea for 18 years clarified for M B Spears how and why Solid South crime(s) went unsolved. Some warn it's best to let sleeping ghosts lie. Others develop over time a need to liberate those ghosts by tearing apart the thickened covering of lies. Their experiences and recollections have built UNSOLVED. In the course of 3 years since first publication, probably for the first time in the history of publishing, a book has evolved into a detective.
zlib_text: This is a work of fiction. Any names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used
  fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons--living or
  dead--is entirely coincidental.
  INKED: Broken Spears MC copyright 2017 by Heather West. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or
  reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission.
   
  
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  Table of Contents
  INKED: Broken Spears MC
  Prologue
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Chapter Fifteen
  Chapter Sixteen
  Chapter Seventeen
  Chapter Eighteen
  Chapter Nineteen
  Chapter Twenty
  Chapter Twenty-One
  Chapter Twenty-Two
  Epilogue
  Bonus Content 1 -- SINFUL VICE