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HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. Dead Man's Blues is a gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, the author of The Axeman's Jazz, winner of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Best First Novel 2014. Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl's troubled mother. But it proves harder than expected to find a face that is known across the city, and Ida must elicit the help of her friend Louis Armstrong. While the police take little interest in the Blackbelt murder, Jacob Russo, crime scene photographer, can't get the dead man's image out of his head, and so he embarks on his own investigation.
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Dead man's blues, Ray Celestin
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Dead man's blues
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ray Celestin
- Publisher
- Mantle
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1447258908
- ISBN13
- 9781447258902
- Series
- City Blues Quartet
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Music Theme, Thriller, Suspense, USA, Detective Fiction, Gifts for grandma, English Literature, Historical Mystery, Mafia, Jazz, Chicago, Gangsters, Pipers, 1920s, Al Capone
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- Dead Man's Blues
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. Dead Man's Blues is a gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, the author of The Axeman's Jazz, winner of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Best First Novel 2014. Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl's troubled mother. But it proves harder than expected to find a face that is known across the city, and Ida must elicit the help of her friend Louis Armstrong. While the police take little interest in the Blackbelt murder, Jacob Russo, crime scene photographer, can't get the dead man's image out of his head, and so he embarks on his own investigation.