Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
A long-standing mystery remained rooted in the Mississippi Delta following adiscovery in 1969 by a backhoe operator digging a hole to install a septic systemin a homeowner’s garden at Egypt Plantation. He had unearthed a metal coffinwith a glass window, through which the face of a beautiful, young antebellumwoman could be seen, with her fancy red dress earning her the sobriquet 'Ladyin Red.' Following failed attempts to discern her identity, her place of origin, orany details of her burial, she was reburied in a pauper’s grave in nearby Lexington.A half-century later, following generations of the mystery remaining unsolvedwith no valid answers offered up, a local fisherman proposes a new theory abouther identity and origin, to spur public interest in initiating the endeavor tofinally solve the mystery of the Lady in Red. The story creates a world in which awoman is born and raised in the Mississippi Delta during the era when the regionwas first settled by immigrants after they acquired the land from the ChoctawNation in 1830. Her short and exciting life, earning her admiration from thelocal populace, is laid out in detail, and the circumstances surrounding her lifeand death are described in a scenario about what could have occurred to resultin the discovery of her coffin being buried in a shallow grave next to the YazooRiver on Egypt Plantation.The book is largely based on my own life and the lives of my family and friendsin the Mississippi Delta. Having been raised next to the Yalobusha River in afisherman family, I simply drew from personal experiences when writing the book.In fact, one could say that the story wrote itself, and I simply turned it into a book.
