Gone missing in Harlem : a novel / Karla FC Holloway.

Title:

ISBN:

9780810143531

Personal Author:

Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-

Publication Information:

Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2021.

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 23 cm

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.

Summary:

"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.

Geographic Term:

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction

Subject Term:

Kidnapping--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction.

African American police--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction

Black police--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction

African Americans--New York (State)--New York -- Social conditions -- Fiction

Black people--New York (State)--New York -- Social conditions -- Fiction

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction

OCLC Number:

on1191677308