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The Blue Door
David Fulmer
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9780151011810 Hardcover
0151011818
$25.00
336pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2007
Territory:
World English
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Synopsis |
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As welterweight boxer Eddie Cero makes his way home through a dark Philadelphia alley, he steps in on two punks beating up an older man. It’s a favor that’s going to turn Eddie’s life upside down. Sal Giambroni buys Eddie a round and offers him a part-time gig helping with his private-detective work. Despite Eddie’s reluctance, a few days on the job reveal that he has a knack for snooping—and then he stumbles onto a cold case involving a missing soul singer. A music lover with a budding interest in the singer’s attractive, talented sister, Eddie finds himself involved in a violent, twisted story of betrayal and intrigue, power and passion—all set to the beat of rock and roll.
David Fulmer’s acclaimed Storyville series brought us a New Orleans teeming with jazz. The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues took fans to Atlanta and the blues. The Blue Door now brings us the vibrant city of Philadelphia and the early days of its famous soul.
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"Shamus Award winner Fulmer pulls out all of the stops in creating a most engaging, reluctant private investigator...Offering a vivid portrait of Philly's heyday as a music scene (think American Bandstand), Fulmer's latest mystery is an excellent choice for patrons who like George Pelecanos and a good dollop of music in their mysteries."
Library Journal,12/18/2007
"It is Fulmer's achievement, in each of his novels, to have nailed both the city and the music...students of American roots music should find much to cherish in Fulmer's books. Each is a highly personal serenade to America's past."
The Washington Post,2/25/2008
"Fulmer captures the Philly scene in the early days of soul. He also treats with great sensitivity the growing relationship between white Italian Eddie Cero and African-American Valerie Pope in an era of racial tension."
The New Orleans Times Picayune,2/13/2008
"Fulmer's absorbing tale is of Philadelphia boxer turned private investigator Eddie Cero, who decides to find out on his own what happened to a popular soul singer in the city who disappeared without a trace."
Philadelphia Weekly,1/18/2008
"Hopping place and time to 1960s Philly, Fulmer sets the stage for a new protagonist, music again a requisite background theme for an unfolding drama that reveals greed, ambition, and the racial attitudes of a divided city."
curledup.com,1/15/2008
"The place is almost palpable. The music is soft and alluring, and a coppery hint of blood hangs in the air, like the jazz that preceded it."
Atlanta Creative Loafing,1/16/2008
"Fulmer's 'The Blue Door' is a nicely linear investigative thriller with a whole new central character whose vocational trajectory isn't anyone's idea of the norm."
Contemporarylit.about.com,1/18/2008
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Biography |
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DAVID FULMER’s first novel, Chasing the Devil’s Tail, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize and the winner of the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. He lives in Atlanta.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Mystery & Detective/General
Fiction- Historical
Fiction- Thrillers
Fiction- General
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Audio/UK: Harcourt
Serial/Performance/Translation: Susan Golomb Literary Agency |
Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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