Tishomingo Blues

Category: Fiction: Mystery & Suspense

Publishing Information: 2002 by William Morrow

ISBN: 0060008725

Binding: hardcover

Description: Dennis Lenahan the high diver would tell people that if you put a ì fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, that's what ì the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel ì ladder. Dennis is a daredevil and the girls love him. Things are going ì along okay with his gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in ì Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South," until the ì day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob ì hit -- Dixie style. The killer looks up and says, "Let's see you ì dive." Suddenly, being a daredevil has lost its kick. Turns out there was a second witness, Robert Taylor from Detroit, ì who carries a picture of his great-granddaddy's lynching along ì with a gun in a briefcase and listens to Marvin Pontiac while ì cruising the back roads of Mississippi in his black Jaguar. ì Robert works for a man from up north who has come to play General ì Grant in a Civil War battle reenactment, but like Dennis, Robert ì has a death-defying act of his own: he's sleeping with his boss's ì wife. Thirty-seven miles from Tunica is the famous "crossroads" where ì Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil for a style of funky ì blues that had never been heard before. Robert Taylor is about to ì introduce Dennis to a "crossroads" of his own. He has a secret ì agenda for taking on the Cornbread Cosa Nostra and wants Dennis ì in on it. To complicate matters are the women. Some are dressed in hoop ì skirts, and all of them have plans of their own. Vernice lures ì Dennis with the whitest thighs he's ever seen. Diane comes to do ì a story on him and wants to take him to Memphis. And still ì another comes along to give Dennis the surprise of his life. But ì it's the scams Robert Taylor plays, drawing Dennis into his game, ì that move the action through all kinds of unexpected twists and ì turns.

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