01986cam a2200397 i 4500 551460184 TxAuBib 20161014120000.0 160804s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2016035939 9781410493774 hardcover 1410493776 hardcover (OCoLC)955779144 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF BKL OJ4 IK2 OCLCO KRX TxAuBib rda Mullen, Thomas. Darktown [large print] / Thomas Mullen. Dark town. Large print edition hardcover. Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing Large Print, 2016. ©2016. 639 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Responding to ordersfrom on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black offices, including World War II veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers. When a woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect white cops are behind it. Their investigation sets them up against a brutal cop, Dunlow, and his partner, Rakestraw, a young progressive. Among shady moonshiners, duplicitous madams, crooked lawmen, and the constant restrictions of Jim Crow, Boggs and Smith navigate a dangerous world on the cusp of great change. (from back cover). 20161014. African American police Georgia Atlanta Fiction. Police corruption Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Large type books. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Atlanta (Ga) Fiction. Georgia Fiction.