David Fulmer

A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery

1 - Chasing the Devil's Tail (Nov-2001)
2 - Jass (Jan-2005)
3 - Rampart Street (Jan-2006)
4 - Lost River (Jan-2009)

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  Chasing the Devil's Tail
  

  • Nov-2001
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery - 1
  

  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 am...

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  Jass
  

  • Jan-2005
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery - 2
  

  In the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music they call "jass" have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to investigate, he discovers that every one of the victims once played in the same band, ...

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  Rampart Street
  

  • Jan-2006
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery - 3
  

  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 murder -- that of a well-to-...

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  The Dying Crapshooter's Blues
  

  • Jan-2007
  • / Suspense
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  On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. Joe Rose--rambler, gambler, and professional thief--has jus...

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  The Blue Door
  

  • Jan-2008
  • / Suspense
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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 par...

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  Lost River
  

  • Jan-2009
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery - 4
  

  The next heart-pounding chapter in Fulmer's Storyville series featuring New Orleans detective Valentin St. Cyr Autumn 1913. Valentin St. Cyr has been absent from his Storyville stomping grounds for some months, trying to make it in the straight d...

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  The Fall
  

  • Mar-2010
  • / Suspense
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  A fascinating and character-driven thriller, this novel delves into the deepest bonds of friendship, all accompanied by a rock 'n' roll beat. After Richard Zale receives news of the death of a childhood ...

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  The Night Before
  

  • Nov-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Joe Kelly is about to greet Christmas by sharing the best news he’s had in years with his wife Mariel and his two children ― along with a gift that Mariel has longed for since the day they were married. But just as he’s about to present his stu...

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  The Iron Angel
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Historical Mystery
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  No one cares much when a couple of street whores working the lowest rung on the prostitution ladder in 1914 New Orleans are murdered in the same fashion. But when a third sporting woman turns up dead in a cr...

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  Anthracite
  

  • Sep-2015
  • / Thriller
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  Donna Santorello, a high-dollar call girl, and Ray Pizulski, a low-rent car thief, find themselves back in Anthracite, the dead-end coal town they escaped twenty years before. They face the ghosts they thought they had left behind, even as a stone ki...

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  Eclipse Alley
  

  • Nov-2017
  • / Mystery
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  The latest title in the award winning and critically acclaimed Valentin St. Cyr Mystery series.In the darkness of a May night in 1916, two “sporting girls” walking home through New Orleans’ Storyville distr...

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  The Day Ends At Dawn
  

  • Nov-2018
  • / Mystery
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  November 18. 1917. America has begun to just send troops “Over There” as part of the Great War effort. The Roaring Twenties are on the horizon. And in New Orleans, Storyville is closing its doors after twenty years as the only leg...

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Award-Winning Books by David Fulmer

Chasing the Devil's Tail
2001 Shamus Award -- First P.I. Novel