Fancy Dancer: A Jake Jakes Mystery

by Carl Waldman

In Noir Rehab, the prequel to Fancy Dancer and the first book in The Jake JakesMystery Series, the protagonist solves a self-appointed case that has helped keep himmotivated while he rehabs his life. In Fancy Dancer, the second book in the series,happenstance again leads him to a mystery. The new riddle obsessing him takes himon travels into Native America, where he makes new complex and captivating friends.But is one of them a killer?

294 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 22, 2020

About the author

Carl Waldman is a freelance writer who divides his time between the streets of New York City and the hills of upstate New York. He is the author of a number of reference books on Native Americans, including Atlas of the North AmericanIndian, Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, and Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900. He co-authored other books on history and popular culture, including Encyclopedia of Exploration, Encyclopedia of European Peoples, The Art of Magic, Elvis Immortal, and Forever Sinatra. He also has cowritten several screenplays, including an episode of Miami Vice for NBC and The Legend of Two Path, a drama about the Native American side of Raleigh’s Lost Colony, shown at Festival Park on Roanoke Island in North Carolina. His hobbies include music and he has played in a number of bands and has worked with young people in music workshops. Streetscape is his first mystery.