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Product Name:
CHASING THE DEVIL'S TAIL (PB) |
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| Product ID:
9780156027281 |
| Category:
Literature and Fiction |
| Price:
$14.00 |
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Description:
Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans
By David Fulmer
Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering Storyville prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder against this extraordinary backdrop, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the district's most notorious madam; a young piano player who would come to be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind.
No ordinary mystery,Chasing the Devil's Tailis a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.
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