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Jan 19, 2021 · The Conjure-Man Dies is a detective novel long forgotten, but now getting a new lease on life thanks to the Library of Congress. The novel, the first to feature a black detective, tells of the investigation into the death of Frimbo, an African soothsayer practicing in Harlem.
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- Collins Crime Club
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Jan 29, 2021 · We asked David Brawn, the publishing director for the Collins Crime Club, a few questions about the imprint, its history, and its latest reissue, The Conjure-man Dies. CrimeReads: Bringing a book back into print is obviously a labor of love.
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The first ever African-American crime novel. One of Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021. When the body of N’Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is discovered in his consultation room, Perry Dart, one of Harlem’s ten Black police detectives, is called in to investigate.
- Collins Crime Club
Oct 3, 2023 · The Conjure-Man Dies was reprinted by Harper Collins in 2021, which speaks to the influence Fisher still holds decades after his death. — Armani Syed. Buy Now: The Conjure-Man Dies on...
Nov 11, 2020 · The Conjure-Man Dies is also available in a Collins Crime Club edition, which isn't annotated but includes an introduction by Stanley Ellin and adds an excellent short story reuniting the detectives from this novel, "John Archer's Nose," in which an odor plays a key part.
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Jan 19, 2021 · The reissue of this 1932 novel should help Fisher (1897–1934) get the wider acclaim he merits for writing the first mystery novel populated solely by Black characters.
Jan 7, 2021 · Together with Dr Archer, a physician from across the street, Dart is determined to solve the baffling mystery, helped and hindered by Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins, local boys keen to clear themselves of suspicion of murder and undertake their own investigations.
