Downtown Strut
An Edna Ferber Mystery
$25.20
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2013
Summary
As Edna Ferber prepares for the openings of Show Boat and The Royal Family in December 1927, she stumbles onto a gruesome murder. She’s been mentoring talented Black writers—part of the Harlem Renaissance—and is stunned when a young man is murdered. Against the backdrop of Roaring Twenties downtown Broadway and uptown Harlem, she discovers a world of ambition, deceit, and jealousy under all the neon glitz.
It’s 1927, and “the Ferber season on Broadway” is about to be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781464201578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1464201579 |
| Author: | Ed Ifkovic |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Edna Ferber Mysteries |
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Critics Review
“Ifkovic is assembling a sort of literary collage, building a picture of Ferber (this fictionalized Ferber, anyway) one piece at a time. Fans of mysteries featuring literary figures as crime-solvers will thoroughly enjoy this series.” - Booklist
Ed Ifkovic
Ed Ifkovic taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for over three decades, and now devotes himself to writing fiction. A longtime devotee of mystery novels, he fondly recalls his boyhood discovery of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series in a family bookcase, and his immediate obsession with the whodunit world. DOWNTOWN STRUT is the fourth mystery in his Edna Ferber Mystery series for Poisoned Pen Press. Previous books are LONE STAR (2009). ESCAPE ARTIST (2011), and MAKE BELIEVE (2012).
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