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Brun Campbell: The Original Ragtime Kid

Product Description: At fifteen, Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884-1952) became enchanted with the new sounds of ragtime and ran away from his rural Kansas home, hopping a train to Sedalia, Missouri, determined to take piano lessons from a black musician he had never met...read more

By Larry Karp

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9781476663456 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 6, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: At fifteen, Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884-1952) became enchanted with the new sounds of ragtime and ran away from his rural Kansas home, hopping a train to Sedalia, Missouri, determined to take piano lessons from a black musician he had never met.

A Perilous Conception

Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] Before scientists won the Nobel Prize for in vitro fertilization, the field was perilous--even murderous. It's 1976. Despite fierce international controversy over whether in vitro fertilization (IVF) should ever be performed in humans, doctors around the world race to be first to produce a baby through this procedure...read more

By Larry Karp

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Hardcover:

9781590589731 | Poisoned Pen Pr, December 6, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Â Itâs 1976.

Paperback:

9781590589748 | Large print edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, December 6, 2011), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Praise for A Perilous Conception.

9781590589755 | Poisoned Pen Pr, December 6, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It's 1976.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781455120314 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 6, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.

A Perilous Conception: Library Edition

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] Before scientists won the Nobel Prize for in vitro fertilization, the field was perilous--even murderous. It's 1976. Despite fierce international controversy over whether in vitro fertilization (IVF) should ever be performed in humans, doctors around the world race to be first to produce a baby through this procedure...read more

By Larry Karp

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781455120291 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 6, 2011), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781455120284 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 6, 2011), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.

The Ragtime Fool: A Ragtime Mystery

Product Description: It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are well along for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, is working to establish Joplin's legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin kept and wants to show it to Sedalia's movers and shakers, hoping to persuade them to set up a ragtime museum...read more

By Larry Karp

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9781590587003 | 1 lrg edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback.

9781590587164 | Poisoned Pen Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback.

The Ragtime Fool: Ragtime Mystery

By Larry Karp

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9781590586990 | Poisoned Pen Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback.

The King of Ragtime: A Ragtime Mystery

Product Description: Itâs 1916, and timeâs running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and to secure his place in musical history. Heâs written a musical drama. His young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, who works as a book-keeper at Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Music Publishers, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work...read more

By Larry Karp

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9781590587010 | 1 edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Itâs 1916, and timeâs running out for Scott Joplin.

The Ragtime Kid

Product Description: 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...read more

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9781590583265 | Poisoned Pen Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Running away from home to persuade legendary ragtime musician Scott Joplin to take him on as a pupil, teenager Brun Campbell stumbles upon the body of a murdered young woman, near which he discovers items belonging to Joplin.

Paperback:

9781590585283 | Poisoned Pen Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's ""Maple Leaf Rag"" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City.

9781590583272 | Lrg rep edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, November 30, 2006), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Running away from home to persuade legendary ragtime musician Scott Joplin to take him on as a pupil, teenager Brun Campbell stumbles upon the body of a murdered young woman, near which he discovers items belonging to Joplin, and embarks on a quest to clear the name of the composer and of a friend arrested for the killing by uncovering the real murderer stalking Sedalia, Missouri.

The King of Ragtime: Library Edition

Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.][Read by Mirron Willis] It's 1916, and time's running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and to secure his place in musical history. He's written a musical drama...read more

By Larry Karp

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781433252006 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 31, 2008), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.

9781433252013 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 31, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781433251993 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 31, 2008), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: It's 1916, and time's running out for Scott Joplin.

The King of Ragtime

Product Description: Itas 1916, and timeas running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and secure his place in musical history. Heas written a musical drama, and his young piano student, Martin Niederhofferawho works as a bookkeeper at Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Music Publishersa convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work...read more

By Larry Karp

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Hardcover:

9781590585269 | Poisoned Pen Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Itas 1916, and timeas running out for Scott Joplin.

Paperback:

9781590585276 | Lrg rep edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, October 1, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: It's 1916 and time is running out for Scott Joplin.

First, Do No Harm

Product Description: The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.... Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he'd been accepted to medical school...read more

By Larry Karp

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9781590581308 | Poisoned Pen Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Martin Firestone's acceptance to medical school triggers dark memories for his father, eccentric painter Leo Firestone, about the past and his own father, a gifted but ruthless doctor involved in such questionable activities as drug dealing, illegal abortions, black market babies, and murder, activities that could have profound repercussions for the present.

Paperback:

9781590581513 | Lrg rep edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, September 30, 2005), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.

9781590581667 | Poisoned Pen Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.

The Midnight Special

While searching for a rare music box, acclaimed Manhattan neurologist and occasional sleuth Dr. Thomas Purdue, along with a bizarre assortment of music box collectors and aficionados, soon discovers that someone will stop at nothing--even murder--to get their hands on the highly collectible music box. Reprint.

By Larry Karp

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9780373264285 | Reprint edition (Worldwide Library, August 1, 2002), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: While searching for a rare music box, acclaimed Manhattan neurologist and occasional sleuth Dr.

Scamming the Birdman

A professor of neurology and an avid music box collector, Dr. Thomas Purdue investigates the theft of his friend Hugh Curtis's collection of musical snuffboxes and the mysterious death of Hugh's wife, following a trail that leads to Vincent 'the Birdman' LoPriore, and joins forces with an offbeat group of misfits and petty criminals to get the collection back. Reprint.

By Larry Karp

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9780373263875 | Worldwide Library, June 1, 2001, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A professor of neurology and an avid music box collector, Dr.

The Midnight Special: A Thomas Purdue Mystery

Product Description: It's a beautiful June day in New York, but not for Thomas Purdue. His friend Edna Reynolds calls to say she's just murdered Marcus Wilcox, a tinhorn interior designer who's been harassing her. While trying to check out an unusual music box his friend Broadway Schwartz has sighted in a local antique store, Thomas is told they have no such box...read more

By Larry Karp

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9781885173515 | Write Way Pub, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It's a beautiful June day in New York, but not for Thomas Purdue.

The Music Box Murders

When Thomas Purdue, a music box collector, discovers out that a rare box he purchased had been stolen from a murdered friend, he tries to solve the mystery himself and encounters more murders in the process. Reprint.

By Larry Karp

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9780373263660 | Reprint edition (Worldwide Library, November 1, 2000), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When Thomas Purdue, a music box collector, discovers out that a rare box he purchased had been stolen from a murdered friend, he tries to solve the mystery himself and encounters more murders in the process.

The Enchanted Ear: Or, Lured into the Music Box Cosmos

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By Larry Karp

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Paperback:

9780595121298, titled "The Enchanted Ear: Or Lured into the Music Box Cosmos" | Backinprint.Com, September 1, 2000, cover price $11.95

9781887322041 | Not Applicable, October 1, 1996, cover price $16.95

Scamming the Birdman: A Thomas Purdue Mystery

Product Description: Life's been routine for Thomas Purdue since he and his friends solved the music box murders last Christmas. It's the following summer now, a steamy August in New York, and Thomas' friend Hugh Curtis has just burst in with the appalling news that someone ripped off his world-class collection of musical snuffboxes...read more

By Larry Karp

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Hardcover:

9781885173843 | Write Way Pub, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Life's been routine for Thomas Purdue since he and his friends solved the music box murders last Christmas.

The Music Box Murders: A Mystery

When Thomas Pardue, a music box collector, finds out that a rare box he purchased had been stolen from a murdered friend, he tries to solve the mystery himself, and encounters more murders in the process

By Larry Karp

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Hardcover:

9781885173584 | Write Way Pub, March 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When Thomas Pardue, a music box collector, finds out that a rare box he purchased had been stolen from a murdered friend, he tries to solve the mystery himself, and encounters more murders in the process

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