Crescent City Kill: A Skip Langdon Novel

Julie Smith

Fawcett Columbine, 1997 - Fiction - 326 pages

As the rich novels of Julie Smith remind us, New Orleans is a city of excess. These days the local philosophy that too much is not enough seems to encompass not only the famed Crescent City pleasures of sex, music, and food, but also the escalating horror of violent death.
However, with a new, honest police superintendent, NOPD detective Skip Langdon feels there's hope for the city she loves. But no sooner does Superintendent Albert Good take office than he is gunned down by an assassin, and within hours the killer himself is killed. A mysterious entity calling itself The Jury claims credit for this act of vigilante justice.
Who or what is The Jury? No one knows, but Skip perceives in it the evil brilliance of her old adversary, charismatic con man and cold-blooded killer Errol Jacomine. She's always suspected it's just a matter of time before Jacomine's megalomaniacal ego orchestrates his revenge.
The time is now.
From across the South, the players in the unfolding drama come together--a pretty college student on the run, a monk who has packed a lifetime's worth of misery into a few years, and a madman with a murderous agenda.
Beautiful New Orleans gathers them all into her casual embrace, while Detective Skip Langdon races (perhaps to her own destruction) to forestall the bloodshed to come.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 24

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: Crescent City Kill: A Skip Langdon Novel; Book 7 of Skip Langdon Mystery Series; Volume 7 of Skip Langdon
• Author: Julie Smith
• Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, 1997
• ISBN: 0449910008, 9780449910009
• Length: 326 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths; Fiction / Southern