Only the Wicked

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453237588

<DIV><b>Ivan Monk chases a mystery deep into America&rsquo;s shameful past</b></div><BR><DIV>Half a century ago, Old Man Spears was a hero of the ballpark. In an age when baseball was segregated, he played in the Negro Leagues, providing hope for a generation of oppressed African Americans. Decades after Jackie Robinson broke baseball&rsquo;s color line, Spears is an old man in a barbershop straining to hear the game on the radio. An offhanded comment about a former teammate, Kennesaw Riles, shocks private eye Ivan Monk, who has deeply buried memories of a ball-playing relative by that name. But before he can pick the old man&rsquo;s brain, Spears drops dead. A few days later, Kennesaw Riles follows suit.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>To understand the pair of deaths, Monk digs into the history of his family and his country. He follows the mystery to Mississippi blues country, where he&rsquo;s forced to confront a brand of hatred that he thought had died with Jim Crow.</div>