Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow

Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow - Paperback

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Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow - Paperback

Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow - Paperback

by Richard J. Cass
$19.57
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Book Overview

Rasmussen Carter is grooming Lily Miller, a young jazz singer, to be a star. She's singing at the Greenwood-the new incarnation of the Esposito-now owned and managed by Baron Loftus, the nephew of Sweetie Bogan, an aging jazz diva. The night Lily debuts, Carter is stabbed in a fight by Sweetie Bogan's lover, Alfonso Deal-Jones. Lily then abandons Rasmussen Carter for Edward Dare, who promises to make her a real star.


Carter is killed in the hospital, and Marina asks Elder Darrow, now retired from the bar business, to investigate-since his pal and Marina's soon-to-be husband, Boston Police detective Dan Burton, is still jealous of Carter and Marina's brief fling. Deal-Jones is found beaten to death, and Burton discovers Alfonso was setting up a cocaine deal with Edward Dare, the lieutenant to a major New Orleans gangster, who also happens to be "death" on drug dealing.


On their own time, Elder and Burton must solve the murders of the low-rent impressario and the New Orleans gangster's right-hand man. Burton is sure there's a connection. And in the process, Elder discovers he may not be cut out for a life of leisure just yet . . .
ISBN9781645991144
Author Richard J. Cass
PublisherEncircle Publications, LLC
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages290
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Richard J. Cass

Richard Cass is the author of the seven-book Elder Darrow jazz mystery series. The first book in the series won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The fifth, Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, won the Nancy Pearl Librarian's Prize for Genre Fiction. His Maine-based Ardmore Therberge thriller series launched with The Last Altruist, and he has also published a short story collection, Gleam of Bone. Cass holds a graduate degree in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Thomas Williams, Jr. and Joseph Monninger. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Playboy, Gray's Sporting Journal, ZZYZVA, Tough, Shotgun Honey and Best Short Stores of the American West. He is a regular contributor to the Maine Crime Writers blog. He is a lecturer at OLLI, and he lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife Anne.

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