Chasing the Devil's Tail (Valentin St. Cyr Mysteries)

Fulmer, David

ISBN 10: 1890208841 / ISBN 13: 9781890208844

Published by Poisoned Pen Press, 2001

About this Item

Poisoned Pen Press; Scottsdale, AZ: 2001. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated "First Edition, 2001"; first print with a full number line starting with "1". 8-3/4" tall, 320 numbered pages; one-piece medium brown cloth binding, gilt lettering in spine, boards plain; plain ivory end pages. Book is square, binding tight; very light general wear; corners not bumped; very slight crease at top front gutter; contents clean and unmarked. Jacket is clean and crisp (no mean trick with an all-white jacket!); no tears, markings, fading; flaps not corner cut (price of $24.95 is on rear panel). No other discernible or objectionable faults on book or jacket such as marks or writing within, stains, tears, chips, or other damage that would diminish its appearance. No remainder mark, no previous owner markings or inscriptions, not price clipped, not a book club edition, not a former library book. Signed (barely legibly) by author in thin black felt tip pen (a "Sharpie") on top of title page. The first of four Valentin St. Cyr tales from 1907 New Orleans. A wonderfully evocative portrait of a distant time and place. Seller Inventory # BMR-2020-7-3-2

Bibliographic Details

Title: Chasing the Devil's Tail (Valentin St. Cyr ...

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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 the real King of Storyville is Tom Anderson, the district's powerful property owner and political fixer, who employs Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr to dig into the deaths of a string of prostitutes. Each victim is found with a black rose. Is a serial killer leaving a calling card? Is King Bolden losing his mind as he stretches his genius to its limits? Why is an elderly priest sent away under care?
""This brilliant debut noir captures a time and place so perfectly the reader will resent each time he has to lay it aside....""
--Barbara Peters

About the Author:

      David Fulmer has been a writer and producer for the past twenty years. His writing credits include features on blues and jazz for The Atlanta Journal & Consitution, Atlanta Magazine, Southline, Blues Access, the All Music Guide and National Public Radio. Among his production credits is the documentary Blind Willie’s Blues, which Video Librarian called "nothing less than the economic, social, and historical evolution of America's indigenous music,” and which earned Fulmer a nomination for a W.C. Handy Award.

      He was a photographer with the U.S. Army Intelligence Center in Europe, and has worked as a welder, a bartender, a musician and a teacher. He spent ten years in the motorsports business, which included five seasons racing sports cars in club competition. A native of Pennsylvania, he lives in Atlanta with his daughter Italia. Chasing the Devil’s Tail is his first novel.