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Tishomingo Blues
Category: Fiction: Mystery & Suspense
Author: Elmore Leonard
Copyright/published Year: 2002 by William Morrow
ISBN: 0060008725
Binding: hardcover
Dennis Lenahan the high diver would tell people that if you put a
fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, that's what
the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel
ladder.
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 General
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.
Thirty-seven miles from Tunica is the famous "crossroads" where
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil for a style of funky
blues that had never been heard before. Robert Taylor is about to
introduce Dennis to a "crossroads" of his own. He has a secret
agenda for taking on the Cornbread Cosa Nostra and wants Dennis
in on it.
To complicate matters are the women. Some are dressed in hoop
skirts, and all of them have plans of their own. Vernice lures
Dennis with the whitest thighs he's ever seen. Diane comes to do
a story on him and wants to take him to Memphis. And still
another comes along to give Dennis the surprise of his life. But
it's the scams Robert Taylor plays, drawing Dennis into his game,
that move the action through all kinds of unexpected twists and
turns.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
Good condition.
Condition Description
2002 hardcover. Lightly read. Minimal wear to dust jacket. Clean and unmarked book. NO remainder markings.
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