Orson Welles is a 20-year-old prodigy directing an all-Negro Macbeth for the WPA in Harlem. But Welles has a problem. His theatre, the Lafayette, is being picketed by angry Harlemites, wrongly convinced by the local Communist Party that he is producing minstrel Shakespeare. So angry, in fact, that Welles is receiving 10 death threats a day. And tensions only increase after one of Welles' actors, Ben Kanter, is arrested for murdering a white socialite seen stepping out with Kanter's girlfriend. Kanter swears he is innocent, ...
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Orson Welles is a 20-year-old prodigy directing an all-Negro Macbeth for the WPA in Harlem. But Welles has a problem. His theatre, the Lafayette, is being picketed by angry Harlemites, wrongly convinced by the local Communist Party that he is producing minstrel Shakespeare. So angry, in fact, that Welles is receiving 10 death threats a day. And tensions only increase after one of Welles' actors, Ben Kanter, is arrested for murdering a white socialite seen stepping out with Kanter's girlfriend. Kanter swears he is innocent, but can't prove it. Welles needs protection until opening night, when the world will see he is actually creating theatrical history. Enter Sassafras Winters and Chinaman, the mystery-adventure genre's newest detective heroes. Winters, a retired Chicago Cubs pitcher struggling to launch a new career as a private detective, is ably if not always happily accompanied by Chinaman, Winters' enigmatic valet, who holds a trunk-load of Ph.D.s and possesses a knack for being at the right place at the right time in history. Being hired by the WPA could be Winters' big break.if he can exonerate Kanter and keep Welles alive until opening night. And that isn't going to be easy.
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