Title: The ragtime fool
Description: After finding a journal kept by Scott Joplin, Brun Campbell hopes to persuade those in power in Sedalia, Mo. to set up a ragtime museum, but instead finds some extremely dangerous people have other ideas that put the life of 17-year-old pianist Alan Chandler in danger.
Subjects: Ragtime music, Diaries, African American musicians, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Musicians, fiction, Missouri, fiction, History, Pianists, Large type books
Places: Sedalia (Mo.)
People: Scott Joplin (1868-1917)