Six classic hard-boiled novels set in the world of music...and one bonus novel.
THE GOLD-PLATED SEWER by Ovid Demaris
STOP OVER by Morton Cooper
CIRCLE OF SIN by March Hastings
MURDER ON HER MIND by Robert Dietrich
BABY, COME ON INSIDE by David Wagoner
DUPREE BLUES by Dale Curran
Ward Greene's blistering third novel, once again set in his fictional Georgia town of Corinth, follows the booze-soaked loves, tragedies, and betrayals of people caught in the clash between old traditions and the new morality of the Jazz Age. It's a passionate conflict sparked by the return of local girl Eloise King after a decade away in New York...bringing with her the Bohemian ideals of Greenwich Village. The characters include an Italian bootlegger, a sex-starved librarian, a philandering husband, a conniving actress attracted to married men, and the return of Cora Potts, the colorful heroine of Greene's first book.
Three ground-breaking, hard-boiled novels of the jazz age in one volume.
SEND ME DOWN by Henry Steig * DUPREE BLUES by Dale Curran * GANGSTER JAZZ by Tom Ardies
The ground-breaking, compelling, and vividly realistic saga of two brothers in the world of jazz, from the roaring twenties to the 1940s, back in print for the first time in 80 years.
Dupree is a hot trombone player who plays his music from his heart. Then he meets Betty, a singer whose sweet music comes from her aching desire. What she wants is a diamond ring, but if he gets it for her, it will cost him much more than money, plunging him into a whirlpool of sex, betrayal, gambling and murder.