Larry Karp
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A Perilous Conception Author: Larry Karp Published: December 6, 2011 by Poisoned Pen Press Category: Medical, Whodunit, Historical Main Character: Dr. Colin Sanford, Detective Bernie Baumgartner It's 1976. Despite fierce international controversy over whether in vitro fertilization should ever be performed in humans, doctors around the world race to be first to produce a baby by this procedure. Dr. Colin Sanford, a brilliant, ambitious obstetrician in Emerald, Washington has a plan. He recruits Dr. Giselle Hearn, an experienced laboratory geneticist-embryologist at the University who's frustrated by the ultra-conservative policies of her department chairman. Drs. Sanford and Hearn, working secretly, set out to put their names in history books. |
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The Ragtime Fool Author: Larry Karp Published: April 1, 2010 by Poisoned Pen Press Category: Amateur sleuth, thriller, historical Main Character: Brun Campbell, Alan Chandler, Tom Ireland, Rudi Blesh It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are well along for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin by presenting a plaque to be hung in the Black high school. But that's not enough for Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, who's working against time to establish Joplin's legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin kept during the years he was composing ragtime, and wants to show it to Sedalia's movers and shakers, hoping to persuade them to set up a ragtime museum in honor of his hero. Click for more info. |
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The King of Ragtime Author: Larry Karp Published: October 10, 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press Category: Historical Main Character: Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, John Stark, Nell Stark Stanley, Martin Niederhoffer, Birdie Kuminsky, Joseph Lamb It's 1916, and time's running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and to secure his place in musical history. He's written a musical drama, If, and his young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, who works as a bookkeeper at Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Music Publishers, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work. The next day, Niederhoffer walks into his office and finds Joplin crouched over the blood-soaked body of a young man. He hustles his teacher away, but unfortunately, the two are seen leaving the building. Click for more info. |
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