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Chasing the Devil's Tail

David Fulmer

出版	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003-07-01
主題	Fiction / Mystery & Detective / GeneralFiction / Thrillers / GeneralFiction / Historical
ISBN	05474161059780547416106
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=P0LSABKgn4cC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering Storyville prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder against this extraordinary backdrop, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the district's most notorious madam; a young piano player who would come to be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind.
No ordinary mystery, Chasing the Devil's Tail is a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.