The Ragtime Kid: Ragtime Mysteries

by Larry Karp

Publisher:

Poisoned Pen Press

, 2024

Overview

Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he’s told no— “Ragtime is colored music.” So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn’t expect is to trip over the body of a young woman—he thinks at first she’s a log and thoughtlessly picks up a couple of items before he rushes away...

Product Details

• Title: The Ragtime Kid
• Author: Larry Karp
• Series: Ragtime Mysteries
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 369
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781615951086, 9781590585283, 1590585283, 1615951083
• Resource ID: LLS:9781615951086
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T17:33:45Z

About Larry Karp

Larry Karp grew up in Paterson, NJ and New York City. He practiced perinatal medicine (high-risk pregnancy care) and wrote general nonfiction books and articles for 25 years. Then, in 1995, he left medical work to begin a second career, writing mystery novels. The backgrounds and settings of Karp’s mysteries reflect many of his interests, including musical antiques, medical-ethical issues, and ragtime music. His most recent book, A Perilous Conception, is set in 1976, when doctors around the world were racing to become first to the wire to produce a baby via in vitro fertilization.
 
Other mystery novels by Larry Karp include The Ragtime Kid, The King of Ragtime, and The Ragtime Fool (a historical trilogy), First Do No Harm, The Midnight Special, Scamming the Birdman, and The Music Box Murders. Larry’s mysteries have been finalists for the Daphne Du Maurier and Spotted Owl Awards, and have appeared on the Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times Bestseller lists. The Ragtime Kid was San Marino CA’s selection for its 2011 One Book/One City Event.
 
Larry’s nonfiction books include Genetic Engineering: Threat or Promise?, The View from the Vue, and The Enchanted Ear.