This is a book about an important and long-overlooked Black woman civil rights leader, and an intrepid New York City private investigator who solved a murder at the seashore in New Jersey in which a Black laborer was wrongly accused of the crime. “The moral audacity and persistence” of Ida B Wells and Raymond Schindler are Alex Tresniowski’s subjects, together with the virulent racism that prevailed from Tennessee to the New Jersey shore at the...