Dead Man's Blues
(Sprache: Englisch)
A stunning historical mystery from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of The Axeman's Jazz.
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A stunning historical mystery from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of The Axeman's Jazz.
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*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*Dead Man's Blues is the gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of his debut 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 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, crime scene photographer Jacob Russo can't get the dead man's 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 there's 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 he'd 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?
Autoren-Porträt von Ray Celestin
Ray Celestin is novelist and screenwriter based in London. His debut novel, The Axeman's 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 Man's 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ray Celestin
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2017, 496 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1447258932
- ISBN-13: 9781447258933
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A magnificent crime novel, at least as good as his stunning 2014 debut . . . His portrait of an edgy, sexy, corrupt, dangerous, deeply racially prejudiced city, where savage violence cohabited with exciting music, is totally absorbing Marcel Berlins The Times
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