Dead Man's Blues
- 498 stránok
- 18 hodin čítania
A stunning historical mystery from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of The Axeman's Jazz.
Ray Celestin je románopisec a scenárista. Jeho debutový román, The Axeman’s Jazz, získal cenu CWA New Blood Dagger a bol zaradený do mnohých zoznamov „Knihy roka“. Nasledoval román Dead Man’s Blues, ktorý vyhral cenu Historia Historical Thriller of the Year a bol nominovaný na niekoľko ďalších ocenení. Jeho romány sú súčasťou série „The City Blues Quartet“, ktorá mapuje prepletené histórie jazzu a mafie v prvej polovici dvadsiateho storočia. Tretí diel tejto série je The Mobster’s Lament.







A stunning historical mystery from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of The Axeman's Jazz.
New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes ...
Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
Award-winning author Ray Celestin's The Mobster's Lament is both a gripping crime novel and a vivid, panoramic portrait of 1940s New York as the mob rises to the height of its powers . . .
Set against a haunting backdrop, the story follows Samuel Etherstone, a struggling artist who receives a peculiar commission from the enigmatic heiress Mrs. Chesterfield to work on a Gothic house on North Yorkshire's Smugglers' Coast. As he uncovers the dark history of the house and its original architect, Francisco Varano, chilling tales of madness and disappearances emerge. Samuel's exploration reveals the sinister obsession driving its construction, leading him into a web of eerie mysteries and supernatural threats that challenge his very sanity.