Jazz Funeral: A Skip Langdon Novel

Julie Smith

Fawcett Columbine, 1993 - Fiction - 365 pages

In Jazz Funeral, Julie Smith once again takes us behind the scenes in New Orleans, with a multi-faceted story of murder, music, and family sorrow. This time, homicide detective Skip Langdon finds herself trying to solve the stabbing death of the universally beloved producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. To confuse the case further, the victim's sixteen-year-old sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't herself the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is. With her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her landlord, Jimmy Dee, to assist her, Skip trails an elusive killer through the steamy city that Julie Smith has claimed as her own fictional territory.

Contents

• Section 1: 14
• Section 2: 27
• Section 3: 77

About the author

Mystery author Julie Smith was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1944. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism. After graduation, she moved to New Orleans and wrote features for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. After a year, she moved to San Francisco and got a job at the San Francisco Chronicle. Fourteen years later, she left to form a freelance writing firm called Invisible Ink with two other women. In 1982, her first novel, Death Turns a Trick, was published. Since becoming a full-time author, she has written over twenty novels including the ones in the Rebecca Schwartz Mystery series, the Paul McDonald Mystery series, the Skip Langdon Mystery series, and the Talba Wallis series. Her novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Jazz Funeral: A Skip Langdon Novel; Book 3 of Skip Langdon Mystery Series; Volume 3 of Skip Langdon
• Author: Julie Smith
• Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, 1993
• ISBN: 0449907422, 9780449907429
• Length: 365 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths; Fiction / Southern