PRAISE FOR
CHASING THE DEVIL’S TAIL
-- Best First Novel - 2002 Shamus Awards
-- Best of 2003 List - Borders Books
-- Best New Series - Booklist
-- Nominee - 2002 LA Times Book Prizes
-- Nominee - 2002 Barry Awards
-- Nominee - 2005 Falcon Award
Winner - Audiofile Golden Earphones Award !!
“A beautifully constructed, elegantly presented time trip to a
New Orleans of the very early 1900s. The characters are
memorable and the period is brilliantly recaptured
-- The Los Angeles Times
“The best part of this very good book is the writing, the see-it,
feel-it,touch-it style. It's a tribute to the power and demands
of friendship,and an explication of the curse of the musical
genius....”
-- The Times-Picayune
“A five-star novel. Flawless.”
-- Jazz Review
"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.)
“Top-notch suspense fiction in an evocative and harrowing time
and place.”
-- Jeffery Deaver
“A fascinating cast of characters in a novel steeped in a gumbo of
race and class, set against a background of jazz.”
-- Bookviews
“The sights and the smells and (crucially) the sounds of 1907
New Orleans are vividly conjured by this remarkable first novel. “
-- January Magazine
“A story full of riposte and revelry where greed, jealousy, and hatred
fuels the need for murder in the first degree...Riveting.”
-- MyShelf.com
“A believable and spellbinding story, which will echo like the
mournful notes of good blues.”
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“Fulmer effectively combines historical material-especially the story of
Bolden's descent into madness -- with a satisfyingly complex mystery.”
-- Booklist
"David Fulmer has created an amazing story, and he makes it look easy."
-- The Plain Dealer
"The sights and the smells and (crucially) the sounds of 1907 New Orlean are vividly conjured by this remarkable
first novel.
-- January Magazine
"An exotic and erotic mixture of things we like: jazz, pimps, prostitutes, murder and dirty politics. David Fulmer is
a fine writer."
-- Nelson DeMille
"A story full of riposte and revelry where greed, jealousy, and hatred fuels the need for murder in the first degree...
Riveting."
-- MyShelf.com
"A believable and spellbinding story, which will echo like the mournful notes of good blues."
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Fulmer effectively combines historical material-especially the story of Bolden's descent into madness --
with a satisfyingly complex mystery."
-- Booklist
| The College of Musical Knowledge Chasing the Devil's Tail Required reading for Courses at George Mason University University of Wuerzburg |
| Audiobook version Available from Blackstone Audiobooks |
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In Japanese
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