{"product_id":"9780998643106","title":"Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eFulmer, David\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCrescent City Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eStoryville, New Orleans, 1907. Storyville, New Orleans. Along these scarlet \u003cbr\u003estreets, two thousand “sporting women” service gentlemen and rounders in \u003cbr\u003egrand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs. The rye whiskey flows like a brown \u003cbr\u003eriver and morphine and cocaine are sold over the counter. Meanwhile, the first \u003cbr\u003ecrazy notes of the music they call jass are blasting out of the saloons and dance \u003cbr\u003ehalls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreole detective Valentin St. Cyr pursues a killer among the hustlers, pimps, \u003cbr\u003efancy men, madams, whores, thieves who swarm the twenty blocks after the sun \u003cbr\u003egoes down. With a fascinating cast of characters that includes Tom Anderson, \u003cbr\u003e“The King of Storyville,” the lovely one-time “dove” Justine, the famed madam \u003cbr\u003eLulu White, and the lunatic jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden, Valentin polices a \u003cbr\u003emiasma of corruption and sin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Shamus Award winning novel melds history and fiction in a tale of\u003cbr\u003emayhem, madness, and murder in the only legally-sanctioned red light\u003cbr\u003edistrict in American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Best First Novel - 2002 Shamus Awards\u003cbr\u003e-- Best of 2003 List - Borders Books\u003cbr\u003e-- Best New Series - Booklist\u003cbr\u003e-- Nominee - 2002 LA Times Book Prize \u003cbr\u003e-- Nominee - 2002 Barry Award\u003cbr\u003e-- Nominee - 2005 Falcon Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCCB is pleased to re-publish the Valentin St. Cyr mystery series in it's entirety and to present the next two new novels in this meticulously researched and widely praised series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This atmospheric, accomplished novel brings to vivid, shocking life the\u003cbr\u003emansions of vice with their 'sporting girls' and their madams and, above all,\u003cbr\u003ethe tragic figure of King Bolden.”\u003cbr\u003e-- The Telegraph (U.K)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"St. Cyr takes his place alongside Harry Bosch and Dave Robicheaux: gripping, visceral, and above all, human.”\u003cbr\u003e— The Critical Mystery Tour","brand":"Crescent City Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106469363967,"sku":"9780998643106","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780998643106_s600x595.jpg?v=1782312292","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780998643106","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}