Black heat
Subtitle: a Nina Halligan mystery
By: Norman Kelley
Edition: 1st Amistad ed.
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780060185428
Subjects: African American women; Missing persons; Black nationalism; Nina Halligan (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; Fiction
Description: Civil rights leader Malik Martin stood the middle ground between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. In 1971, as his organization was set to launch a new program offering unity and economic empowerment, he was assassinated. Twenty years later, when private eye Nina Halligan is hired to search for Martin's missing daughter, she suddenly finds herself shadowed by thugs and the NYPD.