Suydam explains that it is a trial run for the party he will hold the following evening, where his guests will be people of color who live in ghettos they are too ignorant to escape. Three days later, Tommy arrives at Robert Suydam’s mansion and finds it empty. As the detectives leave, Malone hints that he knows Tommy stole a page from Ma Att’s book to keep her from using its magic powers. Tommy pleads ignorance with the detectives.
Howard, question Tommy about a wealthy white man named Robert Suydam, who has offered Tommy an unusually large sum of money to play his guitar at an upcoming party. A month later, two police officers, Detective Malone and the private investigator Mr. Part 1 opens as Tommy delivers a mysterious yellow book to a woman in Queens named Ma Att. The story’s narration is in the close third person, with Part 1 from Tommy’s perspective and Part 2 from the perspective of Detective Malone.
Set in Harlem in 1924 during the Harlem Renaissance, the novella follows 20-year-old Charles Thomas “Tommy” Tester, a street hustler who lives in an apartment with his ailing father.
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