Autumn 1913. Valentin St. Cyr has been absent from his Storyville stomping grounds for some months, trying to make it in the straight detective world and make a go of it with his longtime love, Justi
Welterweight boxer Eddie Cero is out of the ring with an injury, but he still can’t bear to see an unfair fight. In a Philadelphia alley he steps in on two punks beating up an older man—a
Welterweight boxer Eddie Cero is out of the ring with an injury, but he still can't bear to see an unfair fight. In a Philadelphia alley, he steps in on two punks beating up an older man - and the gu
November 18. 1917. America has begun to just send troops “Over There” as part of the Great War effort. The Roaring Twenties are on the horizon. And in New Orleans, Storyville is closing its doors afte
The latest title in the award winning and critically acclaimed Valentin St. Cyr Mystery series.In the darkness of a May night in 1916, two “sporting girls” walking home through New Orleans
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
The siren call of Storyville...New Orleans, 1914. No one cares much when a street whore is the victim of a bloody murder. Nor when a woman in a crib on the dirty back end of the red light district is
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
Storyville, New Orleans, 1907. In this raucous, rowdy, bloody red-light district, where 2,000 scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, cocaine and opium are sold
In the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music they call "jass" have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to investigate, he discovers that every
