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St. Cyr is a great character, and the fascinating city and its larger-than-life denizens intrigue as much as the complicated plot. -- Publishers Weekly Fulmer improves with each outing in this ambience-drenched series, displaying a subtle touch with human relationships, especially those that traverse New Orleans' fluid color line.  -- Booklist","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530256916753,"sku":"CIN0156030519G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625255084305,"sku":"GOR007463370","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51678648664337,"sku":"CIN0156030519VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0156030519.jpg?v=1751005136"},{"product_id":"jass-book-david-fulmer-9780156031912","title":"Jass","description":"In the red-light district New Orleans, players of the new music they call jass have been turning up dead. To Storyville detective Valentin St. Cyr, it's no surprise. These characters, mostly lowdown rounders, walk on the wild side, working their rowdy music through the night and spending their days in excess that sets the tone for a hundred years of American musical mayhem to follow. Anyway, the Creole detective has his own problems. With his woman Justine drifting back to the life of a sporting girl, the last thing he needs is some tawdry distraction. But this is Storyville, and nothing is ever quite as it seems. Once Valentin is persuaded to investigate, he discovers that the deaths are not random at all, because every one of the victims once played in the same band. Four are dead, and the only one left alive has gone into hiding. As he digs deeper, Valentin becomes convinced that a certain mysterious woman is the key to the mystery. He's digging too deep, though, and soon Tom Anderson, The King of Storyville, police lieutenant J. Picot, and even the Chief of Police want him off the case. It's all the proof he needs that there is something larger and darker at the heart of this sordid business. Indeed, this is a tale of dark secrets that lurk in the shadows of the New Orleans nights, under the painted faces of the sporting girls, and especially behind the loud, wild music that echoes up the scarlet streets. Jass is a compelling sequel to David Fulmer's award-winning and critically-acclaimed Chasing the Devil's Tail - an even deeper and darker journey into the bloody and raucous miasma called Storyville","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49630720164113,"sku":"GOR009001764","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50243263791377,"sku":"CIN0156031914G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50324509720849,"sku":"CIN0156031914VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51491571532049,"sku":"GOR014302786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53049272762641,"sku":"CIN0156031914A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53353362424081,"sku":"GOR006724555","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0156031914.jpg?v=1750843431"},{"product_id":"eclipse-alley-book-david-fulmer-9780998643151","title":"Eclipse Alley","description":"The latest title in the award winning and critically acclaimed Valentin St. Cyr Mystery series.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the darkness of a May night in 1916, two \"sporting girls\" walking home through New Orleans' Storyville district come upon a body that's been hideously ravaged. And so begins Eclipse Alley, the sixth mystery in the acclaimed Valentin St. Cyr series by David Fulmer. Valentin, the Creole detective who has spent the previous ten years working the scarlet streets, is drawn into a maze of lies, corruption, and madness, as dark a labyrinth as he navigated in the previous five award-winning and critically-acclaimed mysteries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The sense of place is so palpable you can almost hear the music. Fulmer's writing is crisp and nuanced. Valentin is a hero for whom it's easy to cheer.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- The Detroit Free Press\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"St. Cyr is a great character, and the fascinating city and its larger-than-life denizens intrigue.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Publishers Weekly","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49799682752785,"sku":"CIN0998643157G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0998643157.jpg?v=1772706595"},{"product_id":"chasing-the-devil-s-tail-book-david-fulmer-9780998643106","title":"Chasing the Devil's Tail","description":"Storyville, New Orleans, 1907. Storyville, New Orleans. Along these scarlet streets, two thousand sporting women service gentlemen and rounders in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs. The rye whiskey flows like a brown river and morphine and cocaine are sold over the counter. Meanwhile, the first crazy notes of the music they call jass are blasting out of the saloons and dance halls. Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr pursues a killer among the hustlers, pimps, fancy men, madams, whores, thieves who swarm the twenty blocks after the sun goes down. With a fascinating cast of characters that includes Tom Anderson, The King of Storyville, the lovely one-time dove Justine, the famed madam Lulu White, and the lunatic jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden, Valentin polices a miasma of corruption and sin. The Shamus Award winning novel melds history and fiction in a tale of mayhem, madness, and murder in the only legally-sanctioned red light district in American history. -- Best First Novel - 2002 Shamus Awards -- Best of 2003 List - Borders Books -- Best New Series - Booklist -- Nominee - 2002 LA Times Book Prize -- Nominee - 2002 Barry Award -- Nominee - 2005 Falcon Award CB is pleased to re-publish the Valentin St. Cyr mystery series in it's entirety and to present the next two new novels in this meticulously researched and widely praised series. This atmospheric, accomplished novel brings to vivid, shocking life the mansions of vice with their 'sporting girls' and their madams and, above all, the tragic figure of King Bolden. -- The Telegraph (U.K) St. Cyr takes his place alongside Harry Bosch and Dave Robicheaux: gripping, visceral, and above all, human. -- The Critical Mystery Tour","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49807290106129,"sku":"CIN0998643106G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334523420945,"sku":"CIN0998643106VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53466181566737,"sku":"GOR014934288","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0998643106.jpg?v=1751013410"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/valentin-st-cyr-mysteries-ser-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}