Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010) is the title of the long form edited manuscript of Ralph Ellison's never-finished second novel.

It was co-edited by John F. Callahan, the executor of Ellison's literary estate, and Adam Bradley, a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[2] Invisible Man sold so well that royalty checks provided financial security for the rest of Ellison's life.

However, Arnold Rampersad advanced the opinion that the loss of the crucial, irrecoverable sections of his manuscript appears to have been something Ellison concocted after the fact to justify his lack of progress.

[4] Ellison published eight excerpts from the novel during his lifetime,[8] including an excerpt called "Juneteenth" in the Quarterly Review of Literature in 1965,[4] and the story "Cadillac Flambé", published in American Review in 1973 and reprinted many times since,[9] which received considerable critical attention,[8][10] leading to a lot of interest in the (then) unpublished work.

In 1999, Callahan finished editing the most cohesive part of Ellison's unfinished manuscript, which was released as the standalone novel Juneteenth.

Callahan gained a publication date (January 26, 2010) for a release of the longer manuscript, with supporting notes, under the title Three Days Before the Shooting.