The Axeman's jazz /
Celestin, Ray,author.
In 1919, a serial killer, the Axeman, has New Orleans hiding behind doors.  Then the killer issues a warning:  on a named night, he will spare every person in a home where a jazz band is in full swing; all others risk getting the axe.  Police detective Michael Talbot is struggling to find leads.  His former boss, Luca d'Andrea, out after six years in the penitentiary, is looking just as hard but working for the Mafia, which needs to find the killer just as much as authorities but for a different reason.  Meanwhile, Ida, a secretary at the Pinkerson National Detective Agency, using the methods of her idol, Sherlock Holmes, discovers a clue that leads her and her musician friend, Louis Armstrong, into the case, and into danger.
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Second title page added to the first 300 copies of the first edition.
In 1919, a serial killer, the Axeman, has New Orleans hiding behind doors.  Then the killer issues a warning:  on a named night, he will spare every person in a home where a jazz band is in full swing; all others risk getting the axe.  Police detective Michael Talbot is struggling to find leads.  His former boss, Luca d'Andrea, out after six years in the penitentiary, is looking just as hard but working for the Mafia, which needs to find the killer just as much as authorities but for a different reason.  Meanwhile, Ida, a secretary at the Pinkerson National Detective Agency, using the methods of her idol, Sherlock Holmes, discovers a clue that leads her and her musician friend, Louis Armstrong, into the case, and into danger.
"This story is based on real events. Between 1918 and 1919 the Axeman of New Orleans killed six people. The reprint of the Axeman's letter on pages 4-5 and 267-8 is a transcription fo the original and is not the work of the author."
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Detective and mystery stories, English.
Serial murder investigation