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Author:

Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

215 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Kidnapping--New York--New York--Fiction.
African American police--New York--New York--Fiction.
African Americans--New York--New York--Social conditions--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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.

ISBN:

0810143534
9780810143531

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1191677308

LCCN:

2020047147

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)