by Rudolph Fisher
Poisoned Pen Press
This is reportedly the first known mystery novel (published in 1932) by an African American. The setting is an intriguing Harlem peopled with doctors, morticians, gamblers and the man they all are concerned with, N'Gana Frimbo, a self-proclaimed African King and a conjure-man - a teller of futures.
Sadly, Fisher died very young and there will not be a series with these great characters who are a large part Sherlock Holmesian, but also Shakespearian. There is much more I would love to read about them.
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