New on the Mystery Bookshelf during May 2017 …
A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner, An Elliot Caprice Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Down & Out Books
In 1952, after a year on the run, disgraced Chicago Police Officer Elliot Caprice wakes up in a jailhouse in St. Louis. His friends from his hometown secure his release and he returns to find the family farm in foreclosure and the man who raised him dying in a flophouse. Desperate for money, he accepts a straight job as a process server and eventually crosses paths with a powerful family from Chicago's North Shore. A captain of industry is dead, the key to his estate disappeared with the chauffeur, and soon Elliot is in up to his neck. The mixed-race son of Illinois farm country must return to the Windy City with the Chicago Police on his heels and the Syndicate at his throat.
Good thing he's had a lifetime of playing both sides to the middle.
— A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner
To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for May 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of May 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.
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