Paperback. Pub Date :2011-12-1 Pages: 336 Publisher:. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt As the third Storyville mystery begins. Creole detectiveValentin St Cyr has just returned to New Orleans Having onlyrecently solved the case of the jass murders. he is drawnreluctantly. into the investigation of a new murder -.. that of awell-to-do gentleman on seedy Rampart Street When another wealthysociety man turns up dead. the detective learns that the twovictims were acquainted years ago In a spiders web ofcoincidence. the second murder has been witnessed - or has it - bythe man whos now keeping Justine. Valentins old girlfriend. ashis paramour Valentin probes deeper even as the citys mostpowerful leaders pres-sure him to drop the investigation Whatcould he be getting close to. and.. what nerves might he unwittinglystrike David Fulmer has created a heart-pounding mystery in this. his soulfu...