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The Right to Sing the Blues

The Right to Sing the Blues Hardcover - 1986

by John Lutz (1939- )

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175 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. St. Louis shamus Alt Nudger (Nightlines, Buyer Beware) heads down to New Orleans--where jazz great Fat Jack McGee, clarinetist and club-owner, requires the services of a jazz-savvy private eye. The problem? Well, Fat Jack fears that the club's gifted piano-man Willy Hollister, an unstable sort, is in the process of seducing young singer Ineida Collins. . .who just happens to be the beloved daughter of a major mobster! So, supposedly to protect Fat Jack from David Collins' potential wrath, Nudger sets out to get the lowdown on the Willy/Ineida relationship--and on Willy's faintly creepy personality. Right from the start, then, this case seems less than entirely plausible. Then the improbability escalates--when Nudger's multi-city sleuthing quickly suggests that pianist Willy is a multiple psycho-killer: he falls in love, then always murders his beloved. (All his previous girlfriends have disappeared!) Why? Because, ""like a vampire,"" Willy periodically needs the pain of lost love to feed his soulful music-making. And, when Ineida disappears, it seems that she's about to become Willy's next victim. . .until Nudger realizes that maniac Willy is just a pawn in another villain's feebly contrived kidnapping scheme. Nudger remains a modestly likable hero, aging and downbeat and no superman. Condition: Previous owner's name on front end paper else better than very good in a near fine jacket.
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  • Title The Right to Sing the Blues
  • Author John Lutz (1939- )
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - Better than very good
  • Pages 175
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St Martin's Press, New York
  • Date 1986
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS005618
  • ISBN 9780312682354 / 0312682352
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Saint Louis (Mo.) - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85025167
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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