Kirjahaku

Storyville, New Orleans, 1907. Storyville, New Orleans. Along these scarlet streets, two thousand ""sporting women"" service gentlemen and rounders in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs. The rye whiskey flows like a brown river and morphine and cocaine are sold over the counter. Meanwhile, the first crazy notes of the music they call jass are blasting out of the saloons and dance halls. Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr pursues a killer among the hustlers, pimps, fancy men, madams, whores, thieves who swarm the twenty blocks after the sun goes down. With a fascinating cast of characters that includes Tom Anderson, ""The King of Storyville,"" the lovely one-time ""dove"" Justine, the famed madam Lulu White, and the lunatic jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden, Valentin polices a miasma of corruption and sin. The Shamus Award winning novel melds history and fiction in a tale of mayhem, madness, and murder in the only legally-sanctioned red light district in American history. -- Best First Novel - 2002 Shamus Awards -- Best of 2003 List - Borders Books -- Best New Series - Booklist -- Nominee - 2002 LA Times Book Prize -- Nominee - 2002 Barry Award -- Nominee - 2005 Falcon Award CCB is pleased to re-publish the Valentin St. Cyr mystery series in it's entirety and to present the next two new novels in this meticulously researched and widely praised series. ""This atmospheric, accomplished novel brings to vivid, shocking life the mansions of vice with their 'sporting girls' and their madams and, above all, the tragic figure of King Bolden."" -- The Telegraph (U.K) ""St. Cyr takes his place alongside Harry Bosch and Dave Robicheaux: gripping, visceral, and above all, human."" - The Critical Mystery Tour

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 after twenty years as the only legally-sanctioned the red-light district in American historyOn the morning of this last twenty-four hours, private detective Valentin St. Cyr rises to be greeted by a shot fired through the window of the bedroom he shares with is wife Justine. And so begins "The Day Ends at Dawn," the seventh and final novel in David Fulmer's acclaimed St. Cyr series.It becomes clear early on that a mysterious man who goes by "Mr. Blank" is out to strike at the detective and then kill him before the Storyville clock runs out. Who and why are unknown, but a pattern is set by attacks on those closest to him: Each, the man once known as Beansoup and Valentin's eyes and ears on the New Orleans streets; Tom Anderson, the one-time "King of Storyville"; Frank Mangetta, the Sicilian saloonkeeper who stood up for Valentin after his father's tragic death; Evangeline, the curious woman who has come to live with them; and Justine, once a quadroon "sporting girl" and Valentin's wife for seven years.More characters in his orbit arrive to help, hinder or witness his travails: Lulu White, the most famous madam in all of New Orleans, returning at long last; former police captain J. Picot, Valentin's long-time nemesis; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the madman musician who was the detective's childhood friend.Through the morning, noon, and night, Valentin seeks to track down Mr. Blank and protect his family and friends. All this, over the wild and raucous last night of the infamous place called Storyvill