The Long-Legged Fly Author:James Sallis Not so much a detective story as a story about a detective. Griffin trying to find a series of missing persons. He wins some and loses some. Black detective Lew Griffin skips his father's final illness (New Orleans, 1964) when he's hired to find a missing person -- well-known black leader Corene Davis. Successfully finding Davis, he repeats the ... more »trick three times -- searching for runaway teenager Cordelia Crayson in 1970, his friend Jimmy Smith's kid sister Cherie in 1984, and finally his own long-unseen son David in 1990.« less