Created by David Fulmer
As St. Cyr first appears in Chasing the Devil’s Tail (2001), Valentin is hired by Tom Anderson, “The King of Storyville,” to investigate a series of vicious murders of prostitutes. To complicate matters, a prime suspect is his childhood friend Buddy Bolden, the progenitor of “jass,” who is in the process of going insane, even as he lights up the New Orleans night with his wild horn. And that’s just the beginning. And Anderson and Bolden are just two of the historical figures Fulmer weaves into his tale. also along for the ride are such luminaries as piano player Ferdinand LeMenthe (later to be known as Jelly Roll Morton), E.J. Bellocq, the infamous photographer of New Orleans whores, and notorious madam Lulu White.
An impressive debut, by almost any measure, nominated for a 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a 2002 Shamus Award, and featured on several year-end lists, including Booklist‘s Best New Series, January Magazine‘s Best of 2001, and one of the Mysterious Book Store’s Books of the Month. The rest of the books in the seven-book series were likewise honored, with accolades flowing in from Library Journal, Deadly Pleasures Magazine, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Magazine, The Times Picayune, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookList, Kirkus Reviews, The Baltimore Sun, Mystery Review, The Detroit News, The Telegraph (UK), The Plain Dealer, Crime Spree Magazine, The Boston Globe, Crimetime UK, The Tennessean, Library Journal, Jazz Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and on and on.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Fulmer is the author of eleven critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels, including Chasing the Devil’s Tail (2001), which introduced Creole private investigator Valentin St. Cyr, who went on to appear in six more well-received novels. And just to show he wasn’t a one-trick pony, in 2008 he published The Blue Door, which introduced odd-ball P.I. team of Eddie Cero and Sal Giambroni who pry their trade in the early rock-and-roll era of Philadelphia. A native of central Pennsylvania, David Fulmer lives in Atlanta with his wife Sansanee Sermprungsuk.
UNDER OATH
- “A riveting and provocative mystery… a spellbinding story.”
— Publishers Weekly - “A beautifully constructed, elegantly-presented time trip to New Orleans of the early 1900s. The characters are memorable and the period is brilliantly recaptured.”
— The Los Angeles Times - “An exotic and erotic mixture of things we like: jazz, murder, prostitutes and dirty politics… David Fulmer is a fine writer.”
— Nelson DeMille - “A fascinating cast of characters in a novel steeped in a gumbo of race and class, set against a background of jazz.”
— Bookviews - “A fascinating and riveting account of New Orleans at the turn of the century. It’s all here: you can almost smell the bourbon and opium mixed with earthy scent of river mud, and hear the searing notes that heralded the arrival of jazz.”
— MyShelf.com
NOVELS
- Chasing the Devil’s Tail (2001) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- Jass (2005) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Rampart Street (2006) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Lost River (2009) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Iron Angel (2017) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Eclipse Angel (2017) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Day Ends at Dawn (2019) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- Books and Miscellany by David Fulmer
The author’s official site. - O’Neil’s Big Easy Favourites
And Other Louisiana Eyes
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks, Dave.
