[Michlib-l] Book Sleuths...I need your help in locating a book series.

[Katie Ester]

Could also be John Balls' Virgil Tibbs detective series including the
well-known "In the Heat of the Night" 

KE 

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Katie Ester
Director
Shelby Township Library
51680 Van Dyke
Shelby Township, MI 48316
(586) 726-2344

On 04/27/2015 16:30, Freier, Mollie P wrote: 

> Could your patron be looking for Walter Moseley's Easy Rawlins books? Here's the Wikipedia page on Moseley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mosley [2]. 
> 
> Mollie 
> 
> Mary P. (Mollie) Freier 
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> Head of Public Services and Professor 
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> Lydia M. Olson Library 
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> Northern Michigan University 
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> 1401 Presque Isle Avenue 
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> Marquette, MI 49855 
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> 906-227-1061 
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> FROM: michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org] ON BEHALF OF Heidi Neil
> SENT: Monday, April 27, 2015 4:29 PM
> TO: michlib-l at mail2.mcls.org
> SUBJECT: [Michlib-l] Book Sleuths...I need your help in locating a book series. 
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have a patron that is looking for a book series he read in the 1970's, that featured an African American renegade detective ("kind of like Shaft"…patron's words), the patron is fairly sure the series takes place in Chicago and takes place during the 1960's/1970's. It's not Philip Marlowe of Raymond Chandler books… 
> 
> Any suggestions?? 
> 
> Heidi Neil 
> 
> Adult Services Librarian 
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> Adrian District Library 
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> 143 E. Maumee St. 
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> Adrian, Mi 
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> 517-265-2265 
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> FAX: 517-265-8847 
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> hneil at adrianmi.gov 
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