David Fulmer's Storyville, New Orleans, is featured today at SCENE OF THE CRIME.

[J. Sydney Jones]

Crime in the Key of Jazz–David Fulmer’s Storyville Novels

April 4, 2010 by Scene of the Crime | Edit

Shamus Award winner David Fulmer joins us today on Scene of the Crime to discuss New Orleans a the turn of the twentieth century. That–and more specifically the famous
Storyville district–is the setting for his excellent series of novels
featuring Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr. The series began with
Fulmer’s first novel, Chasing the Devil’s Tail, from 2001. St.
Cyr has appeared in three other novels in the series, Jass, Rampart
Street, and Lost River.

The books have earned literary awards and critical acclaim. The Los Angeles Times declared of his first novel, “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.” “Music is the pulsating idiom of David Fulmer’s hot-blooded
‘Jass,’” wrote Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times. “Fulmer’s
dialogue adds its lyric voice to the gut-bucket sounds and ragtime
rhythms pouring out of the bars and up from the streets.” Of the third
novel in the series, a Publishers Weekly reviewer observed,
“St. Cyr is a great character, and the fascinating city and its
larger-than-life denizens intrigue as much as the complicated plot.”
A Christian Science Monitor critic termed the same
work “A bittersweet trip to New Orleans… A
blues-drenched pleasure.” And
of Fulmer’s 2009 series addition, the Washington Post Book World
commented, “Fulmer is both a fine writer and a marvelously evocative
writer with an eye for character.”

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