Intruder in the dust / Faulkner, William

An elderly black man is charged with murder and two young men, one white and one black, search for evidence to acquit him.

A novel about small-town Southern justice in which Lucas Beauchamp, a Negro, is accused of kiling a white man.

Charles, a sixteen-year-old white boy, repays a debt he owes to an elderly black man, Lucas. After Lucas is accused of murdering a white man, Charles proves his innocence and saves him from a lynching in a southern town.