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This post is auto-generated from RSS feed BOOK RIOT. Source: Dig This Incredible Harlem Renaissance Crime Novel

I love the Golden Age of Crime Fiction; there are just so many great books there, even beyond those by Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. It was a real pleasure to read the newly republished gem of a book considered the first detective novel written by an African American writer–and it has an all-Black cast of characters. The definition of “first” here is specific, as Encyclopedia Britannica points out that it’s the first not published in a serial form first. Whether it was the first-first or first-known African American detective novel, it’s definitely a book that should not be missed by crime fiction readers and/or fans of the Harlem Renaissance.

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