The Last Ride : Archway Publishing : 9781665745154 : 1665745150 : 08 Sep 2023 : THE IMPROBABLE SAGA OF A MAN'S RISE FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO THE TOP OF NASHVILLE SOCIETY AND THE STORY OF HIS MURDER THAT STUNNED MUSIC CITY At ten o'clock on the morning of May 24, 1968, Haynie Gourley backed out of the driveway of his elegant home in the wealthy enclave of Nashville's Belle Meade. Driving across town, he pulled into the sparkling new headquarters of Capitol Chevrolet on the outskirts of the city. An hour later, the seventy-two-year old founder and president of one of the South's largest automobile dealerships was dead of three gunshot wounds--one just below the left ear, a second to the neck, and a third to the chest. The shocking murder of a much-beloved citizen set off a year of speculation: Where was the mysterious Black man who vanished after entering Haynie's car as he rode down Elm Hill Pike with his forty-year-old business partner? Thousands of police hours and ten months later,