Dead Man's Blues (City Blues Quartet)

by Ray Celestin

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*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*

Dead Man's Blues is the gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of his debut The Axeman's Jazz, winner of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Best First Novel 2014.

Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace.

Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to...

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  • ISBN10 1447258932
  • ISBN13 9781447258933
  • Publish Date 4 May 2017 (first published 11 August 2016)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 December 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Pan Books
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 496
  • Language English