The ragtime fool

By Larry Karp

Subjects: History, Diaries, Ragtime music, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Musicians, fiction, Missouri, fiction, Large type books, Pianists, African American musicians

Description: After finding a journal kept by Scott Joplin, Brun Campbell hopes to persuade those in power in Sedalia, Mo. to set up a ragtime museum, but instead finds some extremely dangerous people have other ideas that put the life of 17-year-old pianist Alan Chandler in danger.