Gone Missing in Harlem
A Novel
Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2021, ©2021.
Format: Book
Description: 215 pages ; 23 cm
"A kidnapping tests the mettle, resourcefulness, and intuition of Harlem's first "colored" policeman in this mystery, set during New York's Harlem Renaissance. The story references the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
INCIDENT -- My Baby Gone? -- THE WAR YEARS and A RENAISSANCE -- Your Money or Your Life -- Just Us Women -- Peculiar Since Day One -- From Peril to Promise -- Selma Althea Mosby -- A GREAT DEPRESSION -- (No) Credit to the Race -- Tell Me -- Kin -- The Words to Say It -- Just Prudent -- Far to Go -- Marks Like a Map -- Where You Been? -- A Wild Tangle -- The Web She Offered -- Home Training -- Women's Work -- Quem Quaeritis? -- All the Dark Things -- How We Doin? -- The Kidnap Book -- Let the Dead Bury Their Dead -- How Long You Got? -- A Common Denominator -- Some Things Stay -- A Ways and a Means.
Subjects:
Kidnapping -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
African American police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
African American police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780810143531
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M Holloway | Blythewood | Mystery | In |
M Holloway | Sandhills Indoors | Mystery | In |