{ "item_title" : "Chasing the Devil's Tail", "item_author" : [" David Fulmer "], "item_description" : "Storyville, New Orleans, 1907. Storyville, New Orleans. Along these scarletstreets, two thousand sporting women service gentlemen and rounders ingrand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs. The rye whiskey flows like a brownriver and morphine and cocaine are sold over the counter. Meanwhile, the firstcrazy notes of the music they call jass are blasting out of the saloons and dancehalls. Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr pursues a killer among the hustlers, pimps,fancy men, madams, whores, thieves who swarm the twenty blocks after the sungoes down. With a fascinating cast of characters that includes Tom Anderson,The King of Storyville, the lovely one-time dove Justine, the famed madamLulu White, and the lunatic jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden, Valentin polices amiasma of corruption and sin. The Shamus Award winning novel melds history and fiction in a tale ofmayhem, madness, and murder in the only legally-sanctioned red lightdistrict in American history. -- Best First Novel - 2002 Shamus Awards-- Best of 2003 List - Borders Books-- Best New Series - Booklist-- Nominee - 2002 LA Times Book Prize-- Nominee - 2002 Barry Award-- Nominee - 2005 Falcon Award CCB 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. This atmospheric, accomplished novel brings to vivid, shocking life themansions of vice with their 'sporting girls' and their madams and, above all,the tragic figure of King Bolden.-- The Telegraph (U.K) St. Cyr takes his place alongside Harry Bosch and Dave Robicheaux: gripping, visceral, and above all, human.-- The Critical Mystery Tour", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/99/864/310/0998643106_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "18.00", "online_price" : "18.00", "our_price" : "18.00", "club_price" : "18.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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