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Manhattan 1927. Edna Ferber prepares for the Ferber season on Broadway. On December 27 Show Boat opens; the next night The Royal Family, her comedy of manners written with George Kaufman, debuts. But Edna misses both opening nig......more
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Manhattan 1927. Edna Ferber prepares for the Ferber season on Broadway. On December 27 Show Boat opens; the next night The Royal Family, her comedy of manners written with George Kaufman, debuts. But Edna misses both opening nights. She has something else on her mindmurder.
Edna has been mentoring some talented, young black writers and actors who are part of the burgeoning Harlem Renaissance, including Waters Turpin. her housekeeper Rebeccas son. Intrigued by the boyishly handsome Roddy Parsons, a charismatic man most recently in the Negro chorus" of Show Boat, she heads to Harlem to take him to lunch, only to discover hes been stabbed to death in his bed. Who killed this young man, a lad with so much promise?
Edna finds herself caught up in the heady milieu of the Roaring Twenties Harlem Renaissancethe jazz clubs, the faddish dances, the frenzyand the lively pulse of downtown Broadway that entices these talented young Negroes. But at what a price? Who murdered Roddy? There are the writers who meet at Ednas apartment, among them Bella Davenport, a beautiful vamp; Ellie Payne, a jazz singer; Freddy Holder, a rabble-rouser; and Lawson Hicks, Bella's handsome boyfriend. There is also Jed Harris, the young producer of The Royal Family, a darling of the Broadway setbut a notoriously cruel man. With Waters Turpin and his mother Rebecca, aided as well by poet Langston Hughes, Edna sets out to track down the murderer.
Edna has been mentoring some talented, young black writers and actors who are part of the burgeoning Harlem Renaissance, including Waters Turpin. her housekeeper Rebeccas son. Intrigued by the boyishly handsome Roddy Parsons, a charismatic man most recently in the Negro chorus" of Show Boat, she heads to Harlem to take him to lunch, only to discover hes been stabbed to death in his bed. Who killed this young man, a lad with so much promise?
Edna finds herself caught up in the heady milieu of the Roaring Twenties Harlem Renaissancethe jazz clubs, the faddish dances, the frenzyand the lively pulse of downtown Broadway that entices these talented young Negroes. But at what a price? Who murdered Roddy? There are the writers who meet at Ednas apartment, among them Bella Davenport, a beautiful vamp; Ellie Payne, a jazz singer; Freddy Holder, a rabble-rouser; and Lawson Hicks, Bella's handsome boyfriend. There is also Jed Harris, the young producer of The Royal Family, a darling of the Broadway setbut a notoriously cruel man. With Waters Turpin and his mother Rebecca, aided as well by poet Langston Hughes, Edna sets out to track down the murderer.
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 Gardners 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).
- Author:
- Ifkovic, Ed
- Series Title:
- Edna Ferber Mysteries
- Genre:
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
- Audience:
- General/trade
- Edition Detail:
- Large Print
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 250
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Poisoned Pen Pr
- Publish Date:
- 08/06/2013
- ISBN:
- 9781464201561
- Height:
- 8.5 in
- Wdth:
- 5.5 in
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