Part 24 (2/2)
”I'm not,” he said, threatening. He reached for my wrist but at the last moment pulled back. ”I'm not gay.”
I caught my breath. I didn't speak. He was looking at me so intently that I lowered my gaze from his.
”I'll come over to have breakfast with you tomorrow-if that's okay,” he said finally. ”We have to do something about your aunt.”
We have to do something?
I nodded. ”See you in the morning.”
Okay, so maybe he wasn't a closet case. But surely there was more to his life story than brilliantly gifted mixed-race kid fights his way out of the ghetto and becomes the toast of Gay Paree. It wasn't that I suspected what he had told me was untrue; there simply had to be some juicy bits that he'd left out.
We.
When he was gone I locked the door and placed my grip in front of it.
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About the Author.
Charlotte Carter is the author of crime novels including the Nanette Hayes Mysteries-Rhode Island Red, Coq au Vin, and Drumsticks-featuring a saxophone-playing street musician and crime solver. Though Nanette is from a solidly middle-cla.s.s black family, her salty language, boho ways, and irreverent humor undercut her bourgeois upbringing-and often land her in the middle of a murder case. The books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, j.a.panese, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch.
A recipient of the Chester Himes Black Mystery Award, Carter has worked as an editor and teacher. A longtime resident of downtown New York City, she has also lived in France and North Africa, where she took writing workshops with Paul Bowles.
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Copyright 1977 by Charlotte Carter.
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