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Larry Karp, Casey's father, has written long and short nonfiction, restored and collected antique music boxes, and practiced perinatal medicine. He left medical work in 1994 to write mystery novels full-time. The RagTime Traveler is the fourth book of an historical-mystery series, following The Ragtime Kid, The King of Ragtime, and The Ragtime Fool. A self-described New Yorker, Larry and his wife Myra have lived in Seattle for 46 years. They have two grown children and one grandchild. Casey Karp has been a librarian and a software quality engineer. He has been writing full-time since 2013. The RagTime Traveler is his first novel. An immigrant Californian, Casey and his wife, Maggie, have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than two decades. They are owned by an ever-increasing herd of cats.
In The RagTime Traveler, the fourth novel in his ragtime mystery quartet, he seamlessly weaves his story through time in contemporary and historical Sedalia and Kansas City, Missouri. His characters interact with current and historical personalities so well as to cause readers to forget they are reading a work of fiction. -- Larry Melton In Larry Karp and son Casey's welcome addition to Larry's Ragtime trilogy (which concluded with 2010's The Ragtime Fool), ragtime music authority Alan Chandler and his 16-year-old grandson, Tom, travel from Seattle to Sedalia, Mo., to meet pianist Mikey Potash, who claims to have discovered a trove of unknown compositions by Scott Joplin. Lovers of Joplin and ragtime will enjoy this trip to the past. * <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> * The fourth Ragtime Mystery (The Ragtime Fool, 2010, etc.) is filled with warmth and wonder and interesting music trivia, buoyed by the relationship between the two sleuths, which may well echo that between the late Larry Karp and his son, who finished this final installment after his death. * <b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> * What takes this beyond the usual mystery story is Alan's unusual ability to concentrate on the music and transport himself to 1899 Sedalia, becoming friends with Scott Joplin and his associates.Whether the time-traveling trips are real or just daydreams, they give the reader the opportunity to experience what it was like to exist and mingle with Joplin and others in that history-making era of American music. -- Joe Scarpato Jr * <b><i>Mystery Scene Magazine</i></b> * For those who have loved these mysteries, you will most certainly love this one. The words of the authors are always descriptive and flow well, the plots are rich and colorful, and the cast of characters, both young and old, are beyond memorable. -- Mary Lignor * <b><i>Suspense Magazine</i></b> *
