Other editions of book Intruder in the Dust

Good; see scans and description. New York: Signet, 1955. Signet S1253. 'Intruder in the Dust', by William Faulkner; this is the fifth printing of Signet's softcover edition. 12mo, illustrated wraps, 192 pp. (188 +4). Good; moderate abrasion at top right, front cover, probably from removal of a small price sticker; 10% spine lean; spine damage at top (see spine scan); moderate age toning to the pages; a few sporadic light pencil notations in the first part of the book, presumably erasable. See all scans. L49

One day a local white man named Vinson Gowrie is found shot to death, and a black man named Lucas Beauchamp is arrested at the scene and charged with the murder. In this part of the country at this time in history, a black man who is even suspected of murdering a white man is in danger of being lynched, especially by people like Gowrie's relatives, who are from a particularly rough and bloodthirsty enclave living in an area called Beat Four. The story is told in the third person but from the viewpoint of a white boy named Charles "Chick" Mallison, who in the past has tried to befriend the solitary but kind Beauchamp and is convinced of his innocence. With the help of his uncle Gavin Stevens, a lawyer who decides to represent Beauchamp, his black friend Aleck Sander, and an elderly spinster named Miss Habersham, Chick investigates the matter and discovers, unsurprisingly, that there is more to the case than initially meets the eye