Where Southern Cross the Dog
by Allen Whitley

In the late 1930s, Jim Crow walked unopposed in Mississippi, and Europe was preparing for war. Though an ocean apart, the threads of hate and fear bound those disparate places together.

When you purchase Allen Whitley’s first novel, Where Southern Cross the Dog, some of the proceeds will be donated to the Music Maker Relief Foundation and The Blues Foundation.

The book contains a CD filled with numerous blues songs, oral history narrations, etc. taken from the time period. Most have never been released or heard since their original recording and are gems in and of themselves.

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Synopsis: When Travis Montgomery returns to Clarksdale after graduating from college, he finds his hometown cloaked in fear—four gruesome murders in six weeks. With no clear motive and few clues, the sheriff doesn’t have a suspect—until Luke Williams, a white sharecropper, confesses.

Across town, Dr. Conrad Higson is developing a cotton harvester, a machine that will replace field hands. Expelled from Germany for publicly humiliating a high ranking officer, the well-respected scientist is secretly spying for the Nazis, hoping for permission to return to his fatherland.

While Luke awaits trial, the last four members of Clarksdale’s defunct Ku Klux Klan break him out of jail. Luke turns himself in again hours before the discovery of a fifth mutilated body. But the evidence doesn’t match up, and Travis and his girlfriend, Hannah, the daughter of a prominent African-American family, begin their own investigation, piecing together the circumstances of the murders.

As the town reels from a trial, arson, and yet another body, Travis and Hannah persevere in their search for justice as they illuminate the dark soul of the Deep South.

A masterful blend of mystery and historical fiction, Where Southern Cross the Dog pits first love and idealism against hatred and racism in Depression-era Mississippi.

Bio: Allen Whitley works in the field of environmental sustainability and has published numerous articles. He serves on the Board of Directors for Goodwill Industries of Central Texas and is a former board member of the Writers’ League of Texas. Through his first novel, Where Southern Cross the Dog, he seeks to bring the rich history of blues to a wider audience and raise money for two worthy causes.