Jazz Funeral - Softcover

During a sweltering summer, the popular producer of a New Orleans jazz festival is fatally stabbed and his young sister disappears, prompting detective Skip Langdon to investigate. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Axeman's Jazz. Reprint.

inely moving mystery...It's always a pleasure to spend time with Skip, a no-nonsense, level-headed heroine in a wild and reckless city."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Smack in the middle of the summer, Skip finds herself investigating the stabbling death of the universally beloved producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Then the victim's sixteen-year-old sister disappears, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't herself the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is. And with her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her landlord, Jimmy Dee, to assist her, Skip trails an elusive killer through the delirium of a city caught up in the world's most famous music bash....