William encounters Joseph Goodhope outside the store. William sees that as a prejudicial attitude, and he does not believe it is right. However, Stanley refuses to issue credit to blacks as he does whites. Stanley has always been willing to secretly sell his products to blacks, despite laws that forbid whites from serving blacks. William begins to more closely examine the way blacks are treated. The argument ends with police involvement. One evening, William gets into an argument with Clarence, a black man who is sitting with a white girl at a local speakeasy. His mother, Kathryn, is a strong woman who has been forced to turn over control of her fortune to her white husband. William's father, Stanley, seems to be an upstanding, honorable man. He is the son of a white father who sells Victrola record players and an Osage Indian mother who is wealthy because of her share of the Indian tribe's oil production. William Tillman is a 17-year-old boy growing up in Tulsa during the 1920s. Rowan turns the wallet and gun over to the authorities, but she keeps the receipt as she and James set out to identify the body and find out if the person was murdered. With the help of her best friend, James, Rowan moves the skeleton enough to find a gun and a wallet containing a receipt for the purchase of a Victrola record player. Rowan is immediately intrigued by the mystery. Rowan's summer vacation is just beginning on the day a construction crew finds a skeleton under the floor of the guest house on the family's property.

Her mother is a black attorney, and her father is a white oil tycoon.

Rowan Chase is a 17-year-old girl living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in modern times. The following versions of the book was used to create this study guide: Latham, Jennifer.

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