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The Past is Never Dead

A Gritz Goldberg Mystery

by David Schulman
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Middle-aged shrink David “Gritz” Goldberg is enjoying lunch one day when he receives a message to hurry to the historic Battery Park Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, where an unidentified man is preparing to leap to his death. The predicament, as it turns out, is both more and less dire than it first appears. The man has no intention of jumping. He is T Royal, Gritz’s childhood caretaker, back in Asheville after a long absence to live out his retirement. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, since his return, T has been plagued by the ghost of Mordecai Moore, a young black man put to death sixty-five years earlier for a murder he didn’t commit. In 1939, a girl was killed at the hotel just prior to President Franklin Roosevelt’s visit to Asheville during a Southern campaign swing. T was with Moore that night and knew he didn’t do it but couldn’t testify because of the racial climate of the time.

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    January 10, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780895874672
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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 1, 2004
      In journalist David Schulman's uneven but promising first mystery, The Past Is Never Dead (a title derived from Faulkner's famous comment about the South), David "Gritz" Goldberg, a disillusioned doctor marking time at a psychiatric hospital in Asheville, N.C., gets involved in reexamining a miscarriage of justice-the execution of an innocent black man for the murder of white girl in 1939. Lively characters (including ambitious politicians, Nazi sympathizers and Jewish businessmen), a judicious use of historical background and a healthy helping of humor make this a memorable debut. Agent, Evan Marshall.

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