TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Stephen L.
TI  - The Emperor of Ocean Park
SN  - 0375413634 (alk. paper)
U1  - 813.6 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - African American college teachers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African American families
KW  - African American judges
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fathers
KW  - Death
KW  - Law teachers
KW  - Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard - old families who summer on Martha's Vineyard - and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. It tells the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime."; "The Emperor of the title, Judge Oliver Garland, has just died, suddenly. A brilliant legal mind, conservative and famously controversial, Judge Garland made more enemies than friends. Many years before, he'd a earned a judge's highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation, televised across the country, his nomination collapsed in scandal. The humbling defeat became a private agony, one from which he never recovered."; "But now the judge's death raises more questions - and it seems to be leading to a second, even more terrible scandal. Could Oliver Garland have been murdered? He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, entrusting him with "the arrangements" - a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, and only by unearthing the ambiguities of his father's past; When another man is found dead, and then another, Talcott - wry, straight-arrow, almost too self-aware to be a man of action - must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life, following the clues his father left him."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -