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Larry Karp
Full Series List in Order
Detective Baumgartner
1 - A Perilous Conception (Dec-2011)A Dr. Thomas Purdue Mystery
1 - The Music Box Murders (Mar-1999)2 - Scamming the Birdman (Mar-2000)
3 - The Midnight Special (Aug-2002)
A Ragtime Mystery
1 - The Ragtime Kid (Dec-2006)2 - The King of Ragtime (Oct-2008)
3 - The Ragtime Fool (Apr-2010)
Book List in Order: 9 titles
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The Music Box Murders
- Mar-1999
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Finely Tuned Murder The Swiss rigid notation music box is a rare, coveted masterpiece that collector Dr. Thomas Purdue would simply die for. Apparently he isn't alone. When the beautiful box is spotted by his "picker" at a local antique shop, Purd...
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Scamming the Birdman
- Mar-2000
- / Amateur Sleuth
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It's August in New York and Dr. Thomas Purdue, professor of neurology and avid music box collector, looks forward to quiet days of tinkering with his treasures. But the theft of friend Hugh Curtis's world-class collection of musical snuffboxes -- fol...
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The Midnight Special
- Aug-2002
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A Dying Art Respected Manhattan neurologist Dr. Thomas Purdue and his eccentric cast of music box collectors and aficionados are plunged into a new search for an elusive and rare collectible. The trouble starts when restorer Frank the Crank i...
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First, Do No Harm
- Oct-2004
- / Mystery
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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 ...
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The Ragtime Kid
- Dec-2006
- / Historical Mystery
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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 ...
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The King of Ragtime
- Oct-2008
- / Historical Mystery
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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. His young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, who works as a bookkeeper at ...
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The Ragtime Fool
- Apr-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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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 ...
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A Perilous Conception
- Dec-2011
- / Mystery
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It’s 1976. Despite fierce international controversy over whether in vitro fertilization should ever be performed in humans, doctors around the world race to be first to produce a baby by this procedure. Dr. Colin Sanford, a brilliant, ambitious ob...
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The Ragtime Traveler
- Jun-2017
- / Historical Mystery
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It takes one moment in 2016 for ragtime music expert Alan Chandler to go from sitting in his hotel room in Sedalia, Missouri, to standing beside the King of Ragtime--Scott Joplin--at his upright piano in 1899. Chandler suddenly finds himself more tha...
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