Description: When a journal kept by Scott Joplin turns up, Brun Campbell hopes to use it to set up a ragtime museum in Sedalia, Missouri. But two Klansmen also want that journal, and they don't care if they have to kill to get it.
Brief description:
Larry Karp has written fiction and nonfiction, practiced perinatal medicine, and restored and collected antique music boxes. He and his wife have lived in Seattle for more than thirty years. They have two grown children.
Review Quotes:
"American obsessions with race and glory dominate Karp's lively conclusion, set in 1951, to his Ragtime trilogy...Karp handles the intricate plot well, but the best part of the book is its picture of people torn between what they want to forget and what they need to remember."
-- "Publishers Weekly"