The Ragtime Fool
A Ragtime Mystery
$25.20
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2010
Summary
It’s 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, learns of a journal Joplin kept and wants to show it to Sedalia’s movers and shakers, hoping to persuade them to set up a ragtime museum.
Unfortunately for Brun, author/historian Rudi Blesh is determined to publish the journal. But Joplin’s old friend wants to suppress the material. Even worse, two Sedalia Klansmen are hot afte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590587164 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590587162 |
| Author: | Larry Karp |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Ragtime Mysteries |
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Critics Review
In The Ragtime Fool…historical and imagined characters try to resolve a half century of loose ends, but reality always intrudes when an American art form, its creators, and the public crisscross color and culture lines. These books offer stories for enjoyment; they may also cause you to read the documented histories, and then listen to the music - where more mysteries reside.
– “David Reffkin, Director of The American Ragtime Ensemble”Karp handles the intricate plot well, but the best part of the book is its picture of people torn between what they want to forget and what they need to remember.
– “Publishers Weekly”Karp populates his book with nearly as many historical characters as fictional ones….Ragtime remains central to the series, both in terms of its ambience and its plots, making the trilogy a must recommendation to fans of jazz and American roots music.
– “Booklist”Larry Karp, with his novelist’s eye for plot and character and his historian’s respect for time and place, again applies his practiced skills as a veteran writer of mysteries. Together with his leading man The Ragtime Fool, they promise to keep you turning the pages well past midnight.
– “Max Morath, The Ragtime Man Entertainer and spokesman for American music and history”Larry Karp
Larry Karp, Casey’s father, has written long and short nonfiction, restored and collected antique music boxes, and practiced perinatal medicine. He left medical work in 1994 to write mystery novels full-time. The RagTime Traveler is the fourth book of an historical-mystery series, following The Ragtime Kid, The King of Ragtime, and The Ragtime Fool.
A self-described New Yorker, Larry and his wife Myra have lived in Seattle for 46 years. They have two grown children and one grandchild.
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