Even At Ten Grand, The Price Of The Soul Is Never An Easy Sale... Chance Tartaglia, a cop with a nasty reputation for embezzling, pimping, and drug-dealing has been found shot to death. To nightclub owner Wesley Farrell--who knows all about secrets-...
Miles from Angola State Penitentiary, the body of a New Orleans social worker has washed up on the riverbank behind Audubon Park. Lottie Sonnier would have been just another homicide victim if she hadn't been a long-ago lover of nightclub owner Wesle...
It's 1938 in New Orleans when Ernie LeDoux is released from Angola after serving a 10-year stretch for knocking over an armored truck. And the first thing on his mind is the $75,000 that he has stashed away with an old friend. It is also on the mind ...
During Prohibition, the Mississippi flowed with contraband. Rumrunners could make fortunes in New Orleans. Some got away with murder.
Wesley Farrell, half-caste son of an Irish policeman, is no stranger to violence and death, but he’s deeply...
Autumn, 1940 -- Linda Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. New Orleans' Police Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of the black woman's death until a Treasury Agent arrives on the scene. He lets Daggett know that Linda was t...
December 1941: Jessica Richards, daughter of corrupt New Orleans councilman Whitman Richards, is the victim of a sensational daylight kidnapping. Richards is deliberately throwing the police off the case. Is it because the kidnapper is a familiar ene...
New Orleans, May 1944: A low-level bank employee tries to horn in on an impending bank robbery and is murdered by a shadowy fellow employee who attempts to make it appear a suicide. New Orleans cop Des Cortes and his girlfriend, local reporter Jessic...