Novel by ERSKINE CALDWELL, xi + 160 pages, 20 illustrations In Trouble in July, first published in 1940, Caldwell describes several perilous days at Flowery Branch in the Georgia back country of sandhills and piney woods. Katy Barlow, a wild white girl, accuses Sonny Clark, an innocent black passerby, of attacking her on a roadside. As a lynch mob assembles, Sheriff Jeff McCurtain goes fishing for a few days to avoid the problem. Judge Ben Allen, the county political boss, orders law officers to make a show of trying to catch the Negro but to give in to lynch sentiment. Harvey Glenn, a young cotton farmer who doubts Sonny's guilt but fears the vengeance of his neighbors, turns the fugitive over to an angry mob. The novel has been illustrated with affecting documentary photographs from the Farm Security Administration and other sources. isbn 0-88322-025-3 hardcover$25.00 The Beehive Foundation 208 West Harris Street Savannah, Georgia 31401 These books are published without profit as an educational service. Keywords: The Beehive Foundation, The Beehive Press, Books About the South, Southern History, books, gift books, coffee-table books, coffee table books, presents, publiser, publishing, press, architecture, civil war, old south, slavery, southern plantations, documentary histories, restoration, Savannah, Georgia, scholar, historian, author, Mills Lane, Mills Bee Lane, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Architecture of the Old South, Charleston, confederacy, colonial, revolutionary war, sherman, greek revival, romantic, antebellum, federal, Free Joe, Trouble in July, I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang, Robert E. Burns, a milestone in the publishing of books on georgia and the south, books that are artistic, important and beautiful, bee-hive, behive, small press, non-profit, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, birthday presents.