The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem Fisher, Rudolph African American,Literature,Mystery & Crime Fiction

First edition, first printing. [iv], 316 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in black, red topstain. Very Good with mottling and moderate soiling to cloth, Vintage Youngstown, Ohio bookseller stamp to each pastedown, and penciled owner inscription to back pastedown. Lacking dust jacket. Perry 258. The Harlem Renaissance luminary Rudolph Fisher was a high flyer who achieved quick success in his dual careers of physician and writer. He used his medical knowledge to good effect in The Conjure-Man Dies, the first American novel to feature a Black detective. Fisher intended his mystery to be the first of a series, but died of cancer caused by x-ray radiation before he could complete another full-length novel.