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Lew Griffin, black parttime private investigator, is trying to come to terms with himself; to find the reason for living. His son, David, has left home leaving a note of finality. His love, Deborah, is immersed in producing a play and has drifted away. His good friend, Don Walsh, retired chief of detectives is shot when he interrupted a hold-up at a convenience store. He is now contemplating taking the young man who shot him home when the two of them recover from their injuries. He undertakes the investigation of anonymous threatening letters his friend. Alouette, a community activist, has been receiving. Added to that is his trying to find who is poisoning the pigeons in the park. Griffin used to write books; used to teach; and now reviews books in addition to his investigating work He cannot find a place for himself. The style is almost poetic. The sights and sounds of New Orleans are realistically portrayed. We encounter a number of New Orleans eccentrics and street people. There are many literary references which seem to hold the story together. We are given samplings of everyone from James Joyce to Walt Whitman. The mystery is more the mystery of who Lew Griffin is than the mysteries he has set out to investigate. This is the story of an introspective black man trying to cope in a white man's world.
Reviewed by Barbara Buhrer, December 2001
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