Drumsticks (24 page)

I slept like a child.

Acknowledgments

Many heartfelt thanks to these good friends and associates: Antoinette Bower, Wesley Brown, Burt Kendle, Frank King, Gloria Peropat, Larry Quails, Joan Ringelheim, Ira Silverberg, Lewis Warsh, Gene Wildman

About the Author

Charlotte Carter is the author of crime novels including the Nanette Hayes Mysteries—
Rhode Island Red, Coq au Vin
, and
Drumsticks
—featuring a saxophone-playing street musician and crime solver. Though Nanette is from a solidly middle-class black family, her salty language, boho ways, and irreverent humor undercut her bourgeois upbringing—and often land her in the middle of a murder case. The books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch.

A recipient of the Chester Himes Black Mystery Award, Carter has worked as an editor and teacher. A longtime resident of downtown New York City, she has also lived in France and North Africa, where she took writing workshops with Paul Bowles.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2000 by Charlotte Carter

Cover design by Drew Padrutt

ISBN: 978-1-4976-9178-0

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