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Mobley, Jeannie

Bobby Lee Claremont and the Criminal Element

229 pp. | Holiday | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-3781-8 $16.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-8234-3894-5
(4) 4-6 In 1923, thirteen-year-old Bobby Lee runs away from a New Orleans orphanage to catch a Chicago-bound train, hoping to become a gangster. Instead, he protects beautiful, widowed mother Nanette from criminals (and the cops). Jazz, mobsters, Jim Crow laws, and racial passing are woven into the not-quite-believable mystery surrounding Nanette, but Bobby Lee shines as a detective and a narrator.
Reviewer: Mariko Turk

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