“A fascinating narrative” about the 1912 kidnapping of Bobby Dunbar and a haunting case of mistaken identity that took nearly a century to solve (Boston Globe).

In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing in the Louisiana swamps. After an eight-month search that electrified the country and destroyed Bobby’s parents, the boy was found, filthy and hardly recognizable. A wandering piano tuner was arrested and charged with kidnapping—a crime then punishable by death.

But when a destitute single mother from North Carolina came forward to claim the boy as her son, not the lost Bobby Dunbar, the case became a high-pitched battle over custody—and identity—that divided the South. A gripping historical mystery, A Case for Solomon chronicles the epic century-long effort to unravel the startling truth.