The Blackbird Papers

Name: The Blackbird Papers
Brand: Doubleday
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A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby . a Nobel Prize-winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . .

The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally combative sleuth.

World-renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he encounters a broken-down pickup on the secluded country road to his home. The next day, the discovery of his body with a vicious racist epithet carved into his chest leads to the quick arrest of two loathsome white supremacists. The local authorities seem ready to accept the case at face value as a racial hate crime. But the murdered professor's brother, FBI agent Sterling Bledsoe, has inserted himself into the investigation and isn't ready to buy into this pat solution. A look around his brother's lab and brief interviews with his students and colleagues pique Sterling's curiosity about Wilson's pet project: a nearly completed paper on the mysterious deaths of hundreds of local blackbirds.

Fast-paced and cleverly constructed, The Blackbird Papers introduces a major new talent in mystery and crime fiction.

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It takes about 5 Hours and 52 minutes on average for a reader to read The Blackbird Papers. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute.
How long is The Blackbird Papers?

The Blackbird Papers is 336 pages long.
Who wrote The Blackbird Papers?

The Blackbird Papers was written by Ian Smith
Which awards has The Blackbird Papers won?

in 2005 The Blackbird Papers won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award in category .