JASS

In the red-light district New Orleans, players of the new music they call "jass"
have been turning up dead.

To Storyville detective Valentin St. Cyr, it's no surprise. These characters,
mostly lowdown "rounders," walk on the wild side, working their rowdy music
through the night and spending their days in excess that sets the tone for a
hundred years of American musical mayhem to follow.

Anyway, the Creole detective has his own problems. With his woman Justine
drifting back to the life of a s...