David Fulmer
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Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans
David Fulmer
- 2002 Shamus-1st Novel winner
- 2002 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 LATimes–Mystery finalist
- Score: 22.52
Not New Orleans—but Storyville—noir…and all that jazz! 1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements. King Bolden rules the Storyville brass with his golden coronet and his gift—jasser—to blow a riff on the city’s music that pulses with new rhythms and notes. But…
