What does it mean to write in the literary traditions of such giants as Chester Himes and Walter Mosley who wrote iconic stories about Black detectives in crime fiction?

In this very special episode of Left of Black, host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by long-time colleague and Duke Emerita Professor Karla F.C. Holloway as they discuss her latest novel, Gone Missing in Harlem, which has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as, a page-turner and a portrait of a vanished era. This is Professor Holloway’s second  novel to date, which followed A Death in Harlem, a mystery set in the moment of the Harlem Renaissance.

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