The Thousand Secrets of the Tishomingo Hotel: A Novel About the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Four residents of an old Tulsa railroad hotel, the Tishomingo, are the guardians of secrets about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The secrets are dangerous to know, life-threatening to make known. The residents include the sheriff at the time of the Massacre, Solomon Slow Man Pickett; the deputy sheriff at the time of the Massacre, Sam Traveling Sam Key; a storefront preacher, DaVida King; and an embittered community organizer, Brother Sol Reddick. Opposing them is the menacing Tulsa businessman Asher Dodd. Someone will win this dangerous game of wits … but who? And how?