UNSOLVED: A Murder in the Solid South is set in the early and mid-1950s, near the end of an era fastened upon the people of the Old Confederacy by a long-ago war and military occupation. Power was County by County, and what County you lived in could shape your life ... or your death. One night there came into our innocence a killing cowardly and brutal, a murder for hire.Clues were obliterated. Witnesses were excused, maligned, or overlooked. Tossed between astonishment, hope and cynicism, we were accused of "vicious rumors" --but were our rumors as vicious as the truth?