Tishomingo blues - Leonard Elmore

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"Dennis is a daredevil and the girls love him. Things are going along okay with his gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South," until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit - Dixie style. The killer looks up and says, "Let's see you dive." Suddenly, being a daredevil has lost its kick.".

"Turns out there was a second witness, Robert Taylor from Detroit, who carries a picture of his great-granddaddy's lynching along with a gun in a briefcase and listens to Marvin Pontiac while cruising the back roads of Mississippi in his black jaguar. Robert works for a man from up north who has come to play Ulysses S. Grant in a Civil War battle reenactment, but, like Dennis, Robert has a death-defying act of his own: he's sleeping with his boss's wife.

He also has a secret agenda for taking on the Cornbread Cosa Nostra and wants Dennis in on it.".

"To complicate matters are the women - some dressed in hoop skirts and all of them with plans o...
2003Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2003Uitgever: HarperTorch387 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0060083948ISBN-13: 9780060083946

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