Author: thachhtv

Part 1 In August of 1842, the heat came down on Rosewood Plantation like a curse. It pressed itself against the white columns of the…

Part 1 Charleston kept its sins underground. By day, the city gleamed with white columns and wrought-iron balconies, with ladies in pale gloves stepping down…

Part 1 In the winter of 1962, David Bunger began locking his study door. His wife noticed first. For fifteen years, David had been a…

Part 1 Savannah, GeorgiaNovember 7, 1849 The auctioneer read the number twice because the first time he said it, the crowd thought he had made…

Part 1 The first thing Sheriff Thomas Harrington noticed was that the big house was still breathing. Not living. Not standing in any honest sense….

Part 1 When Franklin T. Graves knocked on Cora Mae’s door in Richmond in the autumn of 1936, he expected an old woman with memories….

Part 1 They wrote her price down the way a man might write the price of a bent nail or a cracked cup. Lot 17….

Part 1 Mississippi, 1851. By late summer, Bowmont Place was so hot that the world seemed to sweat from the inside out. The fields shimmered…

Part 1 The road to the Marsh farmhouse had not been on a county maintenance schedule for thirty-eight years. That was the first thing Trooper…