Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson Paperback Book

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Rent Little Black Girl Lost

Author: Keith Lee Johnson

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp

Published: Feb 2005

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $14.95

Pages: 371

Synopsis

In 1950s New Orleans, beautiful fifteen-year-old Johnnie Wise is sold to a corrupt white insurance man named Earl Shamus, while being pursued by a crime boss who will stop at nothing to possess her, against a backdrop of murder, greed, jealousy, and lust. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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