Not New Orleans--but Storyville--noir...and all that jazz! 1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements. King Bolden rules the Storyville brass with his golden coronet and his gift--jasser--to blow a riff on the city's ...
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Not New Orleans--but Storyville--noir...and all that jazz! 1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements. King Bolden rules the Storyville brass with his golden coronet and his gift--jasser--to blow a riff on the city's music that pulses with new rhythms and notes. But the real King of Storyville is Tom Anderson, the district's powerful property owner and political fixer, who employs Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr to dig into the deaths of a string of prostitutes. Each victim is found with a black rose. Is a serial killer leaving a calling card? Is King Bolden losing his mind as he stretches his genius to its limits? Why is an elderly priest sent away under care? ""This brilliant debut noir captures a time and place so perfectly the reader will resent each time he has to lay it aside...."" --Barbara Peters
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Flat signed by Fulmer on the title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 320pp.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. His first book. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel and a BARRY AWARD FINALST for Best First Novel. New Orleans in 1907, there is a new music called "jass" and a serial killer on the loose murdering prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. Author's First Book and highly regarded.
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