Chasing the Devil's Tail A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST: MYSTERY/THRILLER A BOOKLIST BEST NEW MYSTERY SERIES STORYVILLE, 1907: In this raucous red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade, where cocaine is sold over the counter and rye whiskey flows freely, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the notorious madam; E. J. Bellocq, the photographer of whores; a young piano player who would later be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind. An original tale of murder, music, and madness, Chasing the Devil's Tail is a chilling portrait of genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.Fulmer, David is the author of 'Chasing the Devil's Tail A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans', published 2003 under ISBN 9780156027281 and ISBN 0156027283.