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Publisher
Pan Books
ISBN 13
9781529065626
ISBN 10
1529065623
Book Description
*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*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 Black Belt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girls 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 Black Belt murder, crime scene photographer Jacob Russo cant get the dead mans image out of his head, and so he embarks on his own investigation. And Dante Sanfelippo rum-runner and fixer is back in Chicago on the orders of Al Capone, who suspects theres a traitor in the ranks and wants Dante to investigate. But Dante is struggling with problems of his own as he is forced to return to the city he thought hed never see again . . . As the three parties edge closer to the truth, their paths cross and their lives are threatened. But will any of them find the answers they need in the capital of blues, booze and corruption?Dead Mans Blues is the gripping second installment in Ray Celestin's prize-winning City Blues quartet. It is followed by the third book in the series, The Mobster's Lament.
About the Author
Ray Celestin is novelist and screenwriter based in London. His debut novel, The Axemans Jazz, won the CWA New Blood Award for best debut crime novel of the year, and was featured on numerous Books of the Year lists. His follow-up, Dead Mans Blues, won the Historia Historical Thriller of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for a number of other awards. The novels are part of a series The City Blues Quartet which charts the twin histories of jazz and the mob through the middle fifty years of the twentieth century.
Language
English
Author
Ray Celestin
Publication Date
8/5/2021
Number of Pages
512.0

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