February 24, 2021
Alex Tresniowski
“The Rope” recounts the story of the 1910 murder of 10-year-old Marie Smith in the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, N.J.
Alex Tresniowski will bring a discussion of his new thriller “The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism and the Dawn of the NAACP” to the Lewes community at 5 p.m., Monday, March 1, presented by Lewes Public Library, Browseabout Books, and the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice. Joining him in conversation is Dr. Marlene A. Saunders.
“The Rope” recounts the 1910 murder of 10-year-old Marie Smith in the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, N.J. Unable to find the culprit, town officials call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. In rich detail, Tresniowski lays out the specifics of the investigation and the daring sting operation that caught the killer, while highlighting the sweeping national issues of the time – religious extremism, class struggle, the infa
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.