Author: Ace Atkins
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: travers, mysteries, nick, blues, trunk, leavin
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-07-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0312242123
ISBN-13: 9780312242121

It’s been a year since Nick Traver’s search for the lost recording of blues phantom Robert Johnson in Crossroad Blues. He has grown comfortable playing his harp at JoJo’s in the French Quarter and teaching blues history at Tulane. A difficult case was the last thing on the blues tracker’s mind. When new details on the mysterious death of a blues record producer surface from a legendary guitarist over a bottle of Crown Royal, Nick becomes intrigued. In 1959, Billy Lyons’ body was found stabbed with an ice pick and floating in Lake Michigan. His lover, a blues singe