Dying Crapshooters Blues - Softcover

David Fulmer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156031388 ISBN 13: 9780156031387

Publisher: Harcourt Trade, 2007

Synopsis

On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. Joe Rose - rambler, gambler, and professional thief - has just hit the city. He soon finds himself caught in a three-sided puzzle that involves a black-hearted police officer called "the Captain," the pimp and crapshooter Little Jesse Williams, and a wicked beauty named Pearl Spencer. Behind it all is Atlanta, the city once nothing but dust and ashes, now the richest, busiest metropolis in the South, mixing sin with success and vibrating with mayhem and music.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR THE "DYING CRAPSHOOTER'S BLUES""This is a raffish and deceptively simple novel . . . distinguished by a level of detail that makes a vanished world live again." --"TheWashington Post Book World""

From the Back Cover:

From Shamus Award Winner David Fulmer comes a new mystery?set in the teeming world of 1920s Atlanta

 

On a cold December night, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town; a cache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. Joe Rose?rambler, gambler, and professional thief? finds himself caught in a puzzle that involves a power-hungry police officer called "the Captain," the pimp and crapshooter Little Jesse Williams, and a wicked beauty named Pearl Spencer. Behind it all is the city of Atlanta, once nothing but dust and ashes, now suddenly the richest, busiest metropolis in the South, mixing sin with success and vibrating with mayhem and music.

 

Praise for David Fulmer's Mysteries

"The best part . . . is the writing, the see-it, feel-it, touch-it style that Fulmer uses to wonderful effect. . . . It's a wonderful rendition of a particular world as a very distinctive time."--The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
"The sense of place is so palpable you can almost hear the music. Fulmer's writing is crisp and nuanced." -- Detroit Free Press
"Music is the pulsating idiom of David Fulmer's hot-blooded Jass . . . Fulmer's dialogue adds its lyric voice to the gutbucket sounds and ragtime rhythms pouring out of the bars and up from the streets."--The New York Times Book Review

 

DAVID FULMER’s first novel, Chasing the Devil’s Tail, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize and the winner of the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his daughter Italia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Trade
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0156031388
• ISBN 13: 9780156031387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320