TY - BOOK AU - Fisher,Rudolph AU - Ellin,Stanley AU - Fisher,Rudolph TI - The conjure-man dies SN - 9780008216474 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Collins Crime Club, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - African American detectives KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fortune-tellers KW - Crimes against KW - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "First published by Covici-Friede, New York 1932"--Title page verso; "The Conjure-man dies was the very first detective novel written by an African-American"--Page [4] of cover; "John Archer's nose first published in The metropolitan, by Meeks Publishing Co, 1935." N2 - Perry Dart, one of Harlem's ten African-American black police detectives, investigates the murder of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man. Also includes the short story "John Archer's Nose." ER -