Practice the Jealous Arts: Two Ross Agency Mysteries - Softcover

Pitts, Delia C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1983684821 ISBN 13: 9781983684821

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

The private investigators at the Ross Agency in Harlem specialize in tracking down lost checks and missing relatives and solving other mundane mysteries. Murder isn’t normally on their plate, but when it is, they rise to the occasion.

Practice the Jealous Arts continues the adventures of private eyes S J Rook, Sabrina Ross, and her father Norment, who made their debuts in Lost and Found in Harlem. First, Rook is asked to help his NYPD buddy Archie Lin investigate the murder of an elderly math teacher at the prestigious Harlem Select School. Someone hated the mathematician enough to try to divide her head in two. Lin’s stumped and hopes Rook and the Rosses can find a motive in a tangled web of suspects that includes teachers, students, and parents.

After Rook cracks the first case, he accepts an out-of-town assignment with Sabrina. A celebrated artist has asked the agency to provide security on his farm. Caught up in the artist’s troubled, twisted family dynamic, Rook and Sabrina quickly discover rural life is long on drama and violence.

Welcome back to the Ross Agency. If you’ve got a mystery, they’ve got a solution— whether you approve or not.

About this title

About the Author

Delia C. Pitts spent eleven years as an officer in the US Foreign Service. Her work took her to Nigeria, Mauritania, Mexico, and other exotic locales. Pitts went on to spend twenty years as a university administrator.

Pitts's first work was a pastiche of The Black Stallion she wrote in the second grade. Pitts has contributed to newspapers in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois, and has written over sixty fan-fiction stories and novellas. Her first published novel, Lost and Found in Harlem, introduced readers to Rook and his partners in the Ross Agency.

Pitts lives with her husband in central New Jersey. They have two grown sons.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1983684821
• ISBN 13: 9781983684821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164