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Storyville: The Prostitute Murders #1

Author : Gary Reed

Publisher : Caliber Comics

Page : 37 pages

File Size : 33,30 MB

Release : 2015-09-24

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1632946270

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Set in the Storyville district of 1910 New Orleans which was the home for the "Devil¡¯s Blues" which later became known as jazz. The legalized red light district ran for 25 years and virtually everything was permitted - from sex to booze, from gambling to drugs. The only thing that was not acceptable was murder, because murder was bad for business. When prostitutes and their customers start being killed, Detective Brian Donahue, a transplant from Chicago, finds he has no answer to these seemingly random murders. Pressured by the local 'political machine' Donahue enlists the aid of Dr. Eric Trevor, a psychiatrist at the nearby Saint James Infirmary, a hospital for the mentally ill. It is hoped that Dr. Trevor will provide the answers these seemingly random and vicious crimes. And the two of them embark to unravel the mystery of this new type of killer seldom seen before...a serial killer. From the mind of Gary Reed, writer of the critically acclaimed Renfield and Saint Germaine. Part 1 of 5.



Storyville: The Prostitute Murders

Author : Gary Reed

Publisher : Caliber Comics

Page : 163 pages

File Size : 11,68 MB

Release : 2015-06-08

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1632946327

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Storyville: The Prostitute Murders is a graphic novel set in the Storyville district of 1910 New Orleans which was the home for the "Devil's Blues" which later became known as jazz. The legalized red light district ran for 25 years and virtually everything was permitted - from sex to booze, from gambling to drugs. The only thing that was not acceptable was murder, because murder was bad for business. When prostitutes and their customers start being killed, Detective Brian Donahue, a transplant from Chicago, finds he has no answer to these seemingly random murders. Pressured by superiors and the local 'political machine' Donahue enlists the aid of Dr. Eric Trevor, a psychiatrist at the nearby Saint James Infirmary. And the two of them embark to unravel the mystery of this new type of killer seldom seen before...a serial killer. From the mind of Gary Reed, writer of the critically acclaimed Renfield and Saint Germaine graphic novels. Collects issues 1-5.



Storyville: The Prostitute Murders #2

Author : Gary Reed

Publisher : Caliber Comics

Page : 35 pages

File Size : 14,17 MB

Release : 2015-09-24

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1632946289

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While attempting to solve the Storyville district murders in 1910 New Orleans, Detective Brian Donahue comes under pressure by his superiors and local 'political machine' and enlists the aid of Dr. Eric Trevor, a psychiatrist at the nearby Saint James Infirmary, a hospital for the mentally ill. Dr. Trevor is at first reluctant to join, his main concern is for his patients, not the police's work but understands his value to the investigation. As he evaluates the mounting crime scenes, he begins to formulate his own idea of why the crimes are occurring and that perhaps it was not the prostitutes that were the intended victims but actually their customers. Part 2 of 5.



Storyville: The Prostitute Murders #5

Author : Gary Reed

Publisher : Caliber Comics

Page : 38 pages

File Size : 19,84 MB

Release : 2015-09-24

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1632946319

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The conclusion to the mystery as Trevor finds out the key suspect was a patient at Saint James Infirmary. But even identifying the murderer still leaves the question of motive. Donahue, Trevor, and the support team lay a trap for the killer in hope that they not only stop the murders but find out why as well. Part 5 of 5.



Storyville : The Prostitute Murders #4

Author : Gary Reed

Publisher : Caliber Comics

Page : 31 pages

File Size : 42,61 MB

Release : 2015-09-24

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1632946300

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The investigation makes headway as answers start to develop that explain the murders. A society of businessmen who banded together for profit and appearances may be the key to the murders. In a city full of disease before the era of antibiotics, deadly diseases may also play a major role. But the investigators have to be careful as the city is on the precipice of another riot, which decimated the city a decade earlier. Part 4 of 5.



Storyville: The Prostitute Murders #3

Author : Gary Reed

Publisher : Caliber Comics

Page : 33 pages

File Size : 26,57 MB

Release : 2015-09-24

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1632946297

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While attempting to solve the Storyville district murders in 1910 New Orleans, Dr.Eric Trevor finds out that Detective Donahue is much more resourceful than he thought as he is invited to participate in Donahue¡¯s "private" investigation since officially, things have to be kept quiet so as not to disrupt the thriving economic base of Storyville. New to the city, Trevor finds out about the past of Storyville while at the same time attending his Saint James Infirmary patients, including a 15-year-old boy who murdered his two friends for no apparent reason. Trevor explains to the investigative police team about the ideas behind Jack the Ripper and how the cases might be eerily similar. Part 3 of 5.



Empire of Sin

Author : Gary Krist

Publisher : Crown

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 35,65 MB

Release : 2014-10-28

Category : History

ISBN : 0770437079

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From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world.



Chasing the Devil's Tail

Author : David Fulmer

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,29 MB

Release : 2003-07-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0547416105

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Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering Storyville prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder against this extraordinary backdrop, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the district's most notorious madam; a young piano player who would come to be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind. No ordinary mystery, Chasing the Devil's Tail is a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.



Rampart Street

Author : David Fulmer

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 47,85 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0156030519

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As the third Storyville mystery begins, Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr has just returned to New Orleans. Having only recently solved the case of the jass murders, he is drawn reluctantly into the investigation of a new murderthat of a well-to-do gentleman on seedy Rampart Street. When another wealthy society man turns up dead, the detective learns that the two victims were acquainted years ago. In a spider s web of coincidence, the second murder has been witnessedor has it'by the man who s now keeping Justine, Valentin s old girlfriend, as his paramour. Valentin probes deeper even as the city s most powerful leaders pressure him to drop the investigation. What could he be getting close to, and what nerves might he unwittingly strike?David Fulmer has created a heart-pounding mystery in this, his soulful detective s most dangerous case yet."



Lost River

Author : David Fulmer

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 33,23 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0151011877

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Taking readers back to his acclaimed and much-loved Storyville series, award-winning author Fulmer marks a heart-pounding return to the streets of Detective Valentin St. Cyr's New Orleans.