The mobster's lament /
Celestin, Ray.
The mobster's lament / Ray Celestin. - London : Pan Books, 2020. - 554 pages ; 20 cm. - City blues quartet ; 3 .
"New York 1947 Mob fixer Gabriel leveson needs to leave this city behind. But his plans to flee are upset when he's given a job by the boss of all bosses, Frank Costello. A job he can't turn down...
Meanwhile, a killing spree in a Harlem flophouse has left an innocent black man on Death Row. In order to save him, the man's father - ex-private investigator Michael Talbot - and his old partner Ida Young must track down the real killer.
While acress town, Ida's childhood friend Louis Armstrong is on the brink of bankruptcy, until a promoter approaches him with a strange offer to reignite his career." -- Back cover
1509838961 9781509838967
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction
The mobster's lament / Ray Celestin. - London : Pan Books, 2020. - 554 pages ; 20 cm. - City blues quartet ; 3 .
"New York 1947 Mob fixer Gabriel leveson needs to leave this city behind. But his plans to flee are upset when he's given a job by the boss of all bosses, Frank Costello. A job he can't turn down...
Meanwhile, a killing spree in a Harlem flophouse has left an innocent black man on Death Row. In order to save him, the man's father - ex-private investigator Michael Talbot - and his old partner Ida Young must track down the real killer.
While acress town, Ida's childhood friend Louis Armstrong is on the brink of bankruptcy, until a promoter approaches him with a strange offer to reignite his career." -- Back cover
1509838961 9781509838967
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction
