The Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Hardcover

Fulmer, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151011753 ISBN 13: 9780151011759

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 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.   In his acclaimed Storyville series, David Fulmer brought the jazz-soaked streets of New Orleans to life. Now he brings us another absorbing mystery in a new setting raucous with music and rich with history.

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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: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0151011753
• ISBN 13: 9780151011759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 305