Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery - Hardcover

Atkins, Ace

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312192541 ISBN 13: 9780312192549

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Nick Travers is an ex-New Orleans Saint turned blues historian at Tulane University, who's headed deep into the heart of the blues - the Mississippi Delta - to unravel two mysteries: one the death of a colleague, and the other surrounding the decades-old murder of blues legend Robert Johnson.

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Review:

""Crossroad Blues "sings." --Robert B. Parker, author of "Sudden Mischief "and "Small Vices"""Crossroad Blues "is like a classic song. The right feeling, the right note, at the right time." --B.B. King, blues legend and author of "Blues All Around Me""A fast, funny, suspenseful first novel that has it all." --James W. Hall, author of "Body Language""Atkins' research into blues history adds depth and context to the always entertaining story, which whizzes by like an old, familiar son heard on the car radio late at night." --"The Chicago Tribune" ""Crossroad Blues sings." --Robert B. Parker, author of "Sudden Mischief and "Small Vices ""Crossroad Blues is like a classic song. The right feeling, the right note, at the right time." --B.B. King, blues legend and author of "Blues All Around Me "A fast, funny, suspenseful first novel that has it all." --James W. Hall, author of "Body Language "Atkins' research into blues history adds depth and context to the always entertaining story, which whizzes by like an old, familiar son heard on the car radio late at night." --"The Chicago Tribune

Book Description:

'You can actually hear the music everybody talks about so reverentially' New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312192541
• ISBN 13: 9780312192549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226