Johnny Get Your Gun (Virgil Tibbs Series #3)

Alone in his bedroom, Johnny McGuire turned on his small transistor radio. In the few weeks that he and his parents had been in Pasadena Johnny had made few acquaintances and no friends; in his lonesome little life the radio had opened the door to a magnificent new world. People played music for him to listen to and they told him, play-by-play, what was happen­ing in the big league games. Seated on the edge of the bed, he clutched the little set in both hands.

This radio had been the only g...