Chasing the Devil's Tail
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Author | : David Fulmer |
Publisher | : Crescent City Books |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2017-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780998643106 |
Storyville, 1907: In this raucous red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade, where cocaine is sold over the counter and rye whiskey flows freely, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose.
Author | : Nanine Valen |
Publisher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Devil |
ISBN | : 9780684152929 |
Beginning reader.
Author | : David Fulmer |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547416105 |
Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering Storyville prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder against this extraordinary backdrop, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the district's most notorious madam; a young piano player who would come to be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind. No ordinary mystery, Chasing the Devil's Tail is a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.
Author | : Gareth Linnard |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2023-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1486315542 |
Until the mid-20th century, the thylacine was the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and its disappearance has left many questions and contradictions. Alternately portrayed as a scourge and as a high value commodity, the thylacine’s ecology and behaviour were known only anecdotally. In recent years, its taxonomic position, ecology, behaviour and body size have all been re-examined scientifically, while advances in genetics have presented the potential for de-extinction. With 78 contributors, Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger presents an evidence-based profile of the thylacine, examining its ecology, evolution, encounters with humans, persecution, assumed extinction and its appearance in fiction. The final chapters explore the future for this iconic species – a symbol of extinction but also hope.
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : David Fulmer |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Creoles |
ISBN | : 0156030519 |
As the third Storyville mystery begins, Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr has just returned to New Orleans. Having only recently solved the case of the jass murders, he is drawn reluctantly into the investigation of a new murderthat of a well-to-do gentleman on seedy Rampart Street. When another wealthy society man turns up dead, the detective learns that the two victims were acquainted years ago. In a spider s web of coincidence, the second murder has been witnessedor has it'by the man who s now keeping Justine, Valentin s old girlfriend, as his paramour. Valentin probes deeper even as the city s most powerful leaders pressure him to drop the investigation. What could he be getting close to, and what nerves might he unwittingly strike?David Fulmer has created a heart-pounding mystery in this, his soulful detective s most dangerous case yet."
Author | : Paul Martelli |
Publisher | : Helion and Company |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015-01-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1910777528 |
A collaborationist who fought for Germany during WWII and later for the French in Vietnam tells his eventful life story in this military memoir. This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli who fought on the Eastern Front in 1945 as a fifteen-year-old member of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division of the SS Charlemagne, and later, as a soldier with French forces in the Tonkin area of Vietnam. Paul recounts his time at the Sennheim military training base; his experience of the German invasion of France when he was still a boy in Lorraine; and his motivations for enlisting with the Waffen SS a few years later. He reveals his escapades at Greifenberg, his first love with a German girl helping refugees, and his experiences of combat. After the German defeat, Martelli ends up delivering a group of female camp prisoners to a Russian officer, then living in disguise among enemy soldiers until he escapes and surrenders to the Americans. After a prison sentence and military service in Morocco, Paul is sent to fight in defense of French bases north of Hanoi, Vietnam. Though he survives three years of fierce combat, he compares his service in the Waffen SS with the inefficiency of the French Expeditionary Force and comes out deeply frustrated. At almost twenty-six, Martelli has fought and lost in two wars, both against the communists. Unemployed, and with the ideals of a ‘Nouvelle Europe’ in pieces, he briefly joins the French Foreign Legion before choosing another path
Author | : Margaret R. Robertson |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 177282352X |
An examination of the practice of mummery in Newfoundland including a discussion of mummering time, groups, costumes, and behaviour. The author argues that mummery reflects cultural values and is a ritual response to a liminal state.
Author | : Craig Russell |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525564780 |
Steeped in the folklore of Eastern Europe, and set in the shadow of Nazi darkness erupting just beyond the Czech border, this bone-chilling, richly imagined novel is propulsively entertaining, and impossible to put down. "A wildly entertaining story...Russell has created a truly frightening story." —The New York Times Book Review Czechoslovakia, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a newly trained psychiatrist who studied under Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle surrounded by forests, on a site that is well known for concealing dark secrets going back many centuries. The asylum houses six inmates--the country's most treacherous killers--known to the terrified public as the Devil's Six. Viktor intends to use a new medical technique to prove that these patients share a common archetype of evil, a phenomenon he calls The Devil Aspect. Yet as he begins to learn the stunning secrets of these patients, he must face the unnerving possibility that these six may share a darker truth. Meanwhile, in Prague, fear grips the city as a phantom serial killer emerges in the dark alleys. Police investigator Lukas Smolak, desperate to locate the culprit (a copycat of Jack the Ripper), turns to Viktor and the doctors at Hrad Orlu for their expertise with the psychotic criminal mind. And Viktor finds himself wrapped up in a case more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.