Rhode Island red

Description:

Nanette is doing OK playing her saxophone out on the street, even if boyfriend Walter doesn't like it. Then an undercover cop dies in her apartment, a stranger asks her to explain the mystery of Charlie Parker, and Walter wants to get married.

subjects: African American women,  Hayes, nanette (fictitious character), fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Musicians, fiction,  Fiction,  Women detectives,  African Americans