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The last days of Ptolemy Grey
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting death of his great-nephew, Reggie.
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Conversations with Walter Mosley
The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley (b. 1952) has published over thirty books in a tremendous range of genres and modes: crime and detective fiction, science fiction, literary novels of ideas, character studies, political and social nonfiction, erotica, and memoir. Best known for his Easy Rawlins detective series and Socrates Fortlow series of crime novels, Mosley has created a body of work that as a whole chronicles and examines twentieth-century African American experience.Conversations with Walter Mosley covers the breadth of Mosley's career and reveals a craftsman and wryly witty conversationalist. Conscious of his forebears as well as literary techniques, he discusses favorites and influences including Camus, Shakespeare, and Dickens as well as writers in popular genres, especially speculative fiction and the hard-boiled noir detective tradition. He also discusses how his work modifies the crime tradition to engage it with black experience.
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Sacrament
The morning sun burned hot but there was a strong breeze and big sheltering clouds that cooled the practical nurse on the long trek from her Hoboken home to the Hudson ferry and From the ferry dock to the Bleecker Street address. The bell didn't ring or at least she had not heard it and so she knocked thinking about the sun's might contradicted by mere clouds. Maybe forty she had pale skin, stringy brown hair shot with gray, and glasses fitted with frames too large for her thin white face. The entrance was a long dim hallway presenting floors that had lost their finish decades before in an atmosphere infused by dust.
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The right mistake : the further philosophical investigations of Socrates Fortlow
After serving nearly three decades in prison for his deadly crimes, Socrates returns to the streets of South Central L.A. to connect with old friends and encourage new ones to join him in his campaign to get to the heart of gang violence in the hopes of making a difference and saving the lives of others.
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Gray Shawl
A bird somewhere on the lake makes a strangled cry, a call I once would have thought beautiful, and I remember the librarian wanting me to talk to urban teens about the expanded horizons they face. I'm afraid to pull myself in, afraid that the rowboat will capsize and my mother, the white dolphin, will drown.
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When the thrill is gone
A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help.
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Does Mister Tibbs Still Matter?
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT TURNS 50 An acclaimed mystery writer reflects on the impact the 1968 best picture winner had when ?t was released - and its relevance in the age of Black Lives Matter I was asked to write about the Oscar-winning film In the Heat of the Night, to say if I thought that it and some of its more dramatic scenes were still relevant today. [...]both discovered that their prejudices blinded them to truth. The backstory is that a white man has come from up north to build a factory that will take the place of the cotton fields and bring some modicum of relief to the poverty-stricken Sparta. [...]all the white men he encounters at first despise the uppity detective.
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