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Flipping Boxcars
This is how Cedric the Entertainer’s grandfather inspired his debut crime novel
Though Cedric the Entertainer’s bootlegger grandfather died long before he was born, tales told about his extraordinary life always enthralled him. But, he decided not to keep what these stories meant to him and so he chose to write a novel from the story of Floyd “Babe” Boyce, a bootlegger in Caruthersville, Mo. Many of…
