Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans
 

Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans

by David Fulmer

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... (read more)

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"You best be careful if you go chasin' the devil's tail, 'cause you just might catch it."
-Attributed to Jelly Roll Morton

Storyville, in 1907, was New Orleans red-district. Jazz was coming into it's own and people from all over America visited New Orleans to experience the brothels and the bars. Valentin St. Cyr is a Creole who lived in the quarter. Murders have begun and a black rose is left with the corpse as a taunt. It is up to St. Cyr to find the murderer despite the...

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