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It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, strategies are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin.
Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Child, is working to establish Joplin's legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin held and wants to show it to Sedalia's movers and shakers, wanting to persuade them to set up a ragtime museum.
Unfortunately for Brun, author/historian Rudi Blesh is set to create the journal. But Joplin's old good friend wants to control the material. A whole lot worse, two Sedalia Klansmen are hot following the journal and don't care if indeed they have to get rid of someone to get it. What's one murder, compared to the Klansmen's grand intend to blow up the senior high school auditorium with its integrated audience during the ceremony?
In the middle of this imbroglio is Alan Chandler, a 17-year-old pianist in love with ragtime. If Alan can stay alive, he might be able to prevent catastrophe and learn exactly what it means to be Dark colored in 1950s America.
