David Fulmer Books In Order

Valentin St. Cyr Books In Order

  1. Chasing the Devil’s Tail (2001)
  2. Jass (2005)
  3. Rampart Street (2006)
  4. Lost River (2009)
  5. The Iron Angel (2015)
  6. Eclipse Alley (2017)
  7. The Day Ends At Dawn (2019)

Novels

  1. The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues (2007)
  2. The Blue Door (2007)
  3. The Fall (2010)
  4. Anthracite (2015)

Novellas

  1. The Night Before (2012)

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David Fulmer Books Overview

Chasing the Devil’s Tail

Not New Orleans but Storyville noir…
and all that jazz! 1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements. King Bolden rules the Storyville brass with his golden coronet and his gift jasser to blow a riff on the city’s music that pulses with new rhythms and notes. But the real King of Storyville is Tom Anderson, the district’s powerful property owner and political fixer, who employs Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr to dig into the deaths of a string of prostitutes. Each victim is found with a black rose. Is a serial killer leaving a calling card? Is King Bolden losing his mind as he stretches his genius to its limits? Why is an elderly priest sent away under care? ‘This brilliant debut noir captures a time and place so perfectly the reader will resent each time he has to lay it aside…
.’ Barbara Peters

Jass

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 one of the victims once played in the same band, and the only one left alive has gone into hiding.

As he digs deeper, Valentin becomes convinced that a shadowy woman is the key to the mystery. His efforts to find her touch nerves, and soon Tom Anderson, known as the ‘King of Storyville,’ police lieutenant J. Picot, and even the mayor of New Orleans want him off the case. It’s all the proof Valentin needs that there is something even larger and darker at the heart of this sordid business.

Seductively told, expertly plotted, and terrifically concluded, Jass is the perfect encore to Fulmer’s first novel in the Valentin St. Cyr series.

Rampart Street

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 murder that 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 witnessed or 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 pres sure 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.

Lost River

The next heart pounding chapter in Fulmer’s Storyville series featuring New Orleans detective Valentin St. Cyr 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, Justine. But then a man is found dead in a Storyville brothel. The madam immediately turns to the creole detective for help. He resists, but when several more bodies turn up in Storyville, Valentin can t help but come to the aid of the place and the people he tried to leave behind. Just when he has the case wrapped around his finger, it turns out Valentin has been played. The police captain thinks he s meddling and may be guilty of murder. He s on the run, and Justine has turned her back on him, retaliating with a handsome young fellow in a very sporty car. But is she being lured into a trap too? Taking us back to his acclaimed and much loved Storyville series, in Lost River award winning author David Fulmer marks a heart pounding return to the streets of early 1900s New Orleans. 20090115

The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues

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 rambler, gambler, and professional thief has just hit the city. He soon finds himself caught in a three sided puzzle that involves a black hearted police officer called ‘the Captain,’ the pimp and crapshooter Little Jesse Williams, and a wicked beauty named Pearl Spencer. Behind it all is Atlanta, the city once nothing but dust and ashes, now the richest, busiest metropolis in the South, mixing sin with success and vibrating with mayhem and music. In his acclaimed Storyville series, David Fulmer brought the jazz soaked streets of New Orleans to life. Now he brings us another absorbing mystery in a new setting raucous with music and rich with history.

The Blue Door

As welterweight boxer Eddie Cero makes his way home through a dark Philadelphia alley, he steps in on two punks beating up an older man. It’s a favor that s going to turn Eddie s life upside down. Sal Giambroni buys Eddie a round and offers him a part time gig helping with his private detective work. Despite Eddie s reluctance, a few days on the job reveal that he has a knack for snooping and then he stumbles onto a cold case involving a missing soul singer. A music lover with a budding interest in the singer s attractive, talented sister, Eddie finds himself involved in a violent, twisted story of betrayal and intrigue, power and passion all set to the beat of rock and roll. David Fulmer s acclaimed Storyville series brought us a New Orleans teeming with jazz. The Dying Crapshooter s Blues took fans to Atlanta and the blues. The Blue Door now brings us the vibrant city of Philadelphia and the early days of its famous soul. 20071218

The Fall

A fascinating and character-driven thriller, this novel delves into the deepest bonds of friendship, all accompanied by a rock ‘n’ roll beat. After Richard Zale receives news of the death of a childhood friend, he returns to their hometown to pay his respects. It isn’t long, however, before old frictions and a new puzzle emerge, drawing him deeper into the mystery of his friend’s demise.

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