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CHASING THE DEVIL'S TAIL (Shamus Award Winner) (SIGNED COPY)
by Fulmer, David
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1890208841
- ISBN 13
- 9781890208844
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. 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. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
Synopsis
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 Tail is a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019331
- Title
- CHASING THE DEVIL'S TAIL (Shamus Award Winner) (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- Fulmer, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1890208841
- ISBN 13
- 9781890208844
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press
- Place of Publication
- Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Mystery and Crime, New Orleans, Signed, First Book,Award Winner
- Bookseller catalogs
- FIRST BOOK; NEW ORLEANS; LOUISIANA;
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About Murder By The Book
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