The Emperor of Ocean Park

Proof copy. Large 8vo. Pp. [viii], 657, [7 (blank)]. Pictorial wraps. Author's Note.

Debut novel. A 2002 CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award nominee for best first novel. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. A Book of the Month Club Main Selection. After the death of his father, a conservative judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court had once collapsed in scandal, an African-American law professor is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note. Legal thriller set within the privileged worlds of Ivy League academia and the black upper middle class milieu of the East Coast.

Author has served as Professor of Law, Yale. Book spent 11 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 2002. "Full of energy... high-spirited and fleet of foot... This novel... lives on the page... It's not much of an exaggeration to think that in Stephen Carter the black upper class has found its Dreiser." –The New York Times Book Review