Chasing the Devil's Tail

Not New Orleans—but Storyville—noir…and all that jazz!

About the Author :
David Fulmer has been a writer and producer for the past twenty years. His writing credits include features on blues and jazz for The Atlanta Journal & Consitution, Atlanta Magazine, Southline, Blues Access, the All Music Guide and National Public Radio. Among his production credits is the documentary Blind Willie’s Blues, which Video Librarian called "nothing less than the economic, social, and historical evolution of America's indigenous music,” and which earned Fulmer a nomination for a W.C. Handy Award. He was a photographer with the U.S. Army Intelligence Center in Europe, and has worked as a welder, a bartender, a musician and a teacher. He spent ten years in the motorsports business, which included five seasons racing sports cars in club competition. A native of Pennsylvania, he lives in Atlanta with his daughter Italia. Chasing the Devil’s Tail is his first novel.

Review :
"In the tradition of "The Alienist, Chasing the Devil's Tail "gives us top-notch suspense fiction in a delightfully evocative and harrowing time and place: New Orleans' Storyville at the beginning of the twentieth century. We immediately fall under the author's spell and are soon roaming the authentic haunts of that neighborhood in the company of his characters, some good and some not so, but all wonderfully colorful and as real as the blues." --Jeffery Deaver, author of "The Bone Collector, The Blue Nowhere" and "Speaking in Tongues.""The mystery is a good one, satisfyingly resolved. The characters are memorable and the period is brilliantly recaptured. If Fulmer, a documentary film producer, has plans for future stories about St. Cyr and his real and imaginary Fourth Ward cronies, they'd be more than welcome here." --Dick Lochte, "LA TImes""[Fulmer's] first fiction, which features a fascinating plot line and pervasive New Orleans atmosphere, is an outstanding historical." --"Library Journal" " "In the tradition of "The Alienist, Chasing the Devil's Tail "gives us top-notch suspense fiction in a delightfully evocative and harrowing time and place: New Orleans' Storyville at the beginning of the twentieth century. We immediately fall under the author's spell and are soon roaming the authentic haunts of that neighborhood in the company of his characters, some good and some not so, but all wonderfully colorful and as real as the blues." --Jeffery Deaver, author of "The Bone Collector, The Blue Nowhere" and "Speaking in Tongues." "The mystery is a good one, satisfyingly resolved. The characters are memorable and the period is brilliantly recaptured. If Fulmer, a documentary film producer, has plans for future stories about St. Cyr and his real and imaginary Fourth Ward cronies, they'd be more than welcome here."  --Dick Lochte, "LA TImes" "[Fulmer's] first fiction, which features a fascinating plot line and pervasive New Orleans atmosphere, is an "In the tradition of The Alienist, Chasing the Devil's Tail gives us top-notch suspense fiction in a delightfully evocative and harrowing time and place: New Orleans' Storyville at the beginning of the twentieth century. We immediately fall under the author's spell and are soon roaming the authentic haunts of that neighborhood in the company of his characters, some good and some not so, but all wonderfully colorful and as real as the blues." --Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bone Collector, The Blue Nowhere and Speaking in Tongues.