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Dead Man's Blues
Written by Ray Celestin
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Chicago, 1928: In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place: a clique of city leaders is poisoned, a white gangster is found mutilated and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress, but it proves harder than expected and so, Ida must elicit the help of her friend Louis Armstrong. But will any of them find the answers they need in the capital of jazz, booze and corruption?
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Ray Celestin
Ray Celestin is novelist and screenwriter based in London. His debut novel, The Axeman’s Jazz, won the CWA New Blood Award for best debut crime novel of the year, and was featured on numerous ‘Books of the Year’ lists. His follow-up, Dead Man’s Blues, won the Historia Historical Thriller of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for a number of other awards. The novels are part of a series – The City Blues Quartet – which charts the twin histories of jazz and the mob through the middle fifty years of the twentieth century.
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