{"product_id":"the-runner-a-harlem-numbers-mystery-book-one-ya-historical-mystery-e-book-digital-download","title":"THE RUNNER — A Harlem Numbers Mystery, Book One | YA Historical Mystery | E-Book Digital Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eHARLEM, 1974. THE FIRST THING YOU LEARN AS A RUNNER IS THAT NOBODY LOOKS AT YOU.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second thing you learn is to never, ever count on that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeddy Pettaway is fourteen. Every morning he climbs nine hundred stairs collecting numbers slips — dimes and dreams folded into cigarette cellophane — for Miss Idella Crumpton's bank, the last independent policy book on Seventh Avenue. He has a runner's gifts: an exact memory, an invisible face, and a composition notebook he was told never to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen Mr. Threadgill's number comes in. 3-1-7. The number he has played for a dime every day for twenty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time Teddy reaches the fourth floor, the old man is dead in his chair — and on the table is a slip that cannot possibly be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy nightfall the block is saying Miss Idella owes six thousand dollars and won't pay. Somebody built that story. Somebody wanted the bank broken cheap. And somebody stood in a back room and watched a boy write it all down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mystery about who gets believed, who gets paid, and what it costs to be the one person on the block who keeps a record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDream books. A beauty shop that is secretly a bank. A detective who takes the envelope. A captain of police who was first on scene in 1958 — too fast. A grandmother who sees everything from the back of the sanctuary. And one Post Office man's letter, never sent, written a line at a time for three years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFOR READERS OF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalter Mosley · Jason Reynolds · Angie Thomas · Kwame Alexander\u003cbr\u003eHistorical mystery with a teenage detective the adults can't see.\u003cbr\u003eAges 14 and up. No graphic violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE HARLEM NUMBERS MYSTERIES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook One — The Runner (1974)\u003cbr\u003eBook Two — Dream Book (1975)\u003cbr\u003eBook Three — The Figure (1976) — coming soon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach book is a complete, self-contained mystery. Approx. 20,000 words \/ 80 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eINSTANT DIGITAL DELIVERY\u003cbr\u003eYou receive EPUB (for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, and all e-readers) and PDF. Files sent immediately via download link upon purchase. Personal use only; not for resale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuestions? Contact us anytime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"7ThirtyWorld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45490344951831,"sku":"HNM-EBOOK-001","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0581\/7594\/6775\/files\/Book1_cover_source.png?v=1790250898","url":"https:\/\/7thirtybiz.com\/products\/the-runner-a-harlem-numbers-mystery-book-one-ya-historical-mystery-e-book-digital-download","provider":"7ThirtyWorld","version":"1.0","type":"link"}