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Who Shot The La-La?

by Robert P. Robertson

332 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0389; ISBN 1-55212-987-X; US$27.00, C$30.95, EUR22.50, £15.50

Can you guess WHO SHOT THE LA-LA?

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About the Book In the early morning of March 23, 1913, in the legendary red-light district of Storyville, a dancehall shoot-out shook The Big Easy! The La-La, the famous Duke of the District, was killed! Inspecting the case, an inspector realizes it was more than just a dramatic shoot-out ­ it was cold-blooded murder! Can you guess Who Shot The La-La? Who Shot The La-La? is based upon a true murder-mystery that happened in New Orleans in the early 1900's when Jazz was just a curious form of barrelhouse music and New Orleans was an international, bohemian mecca.

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About the Author Robert P. Robertson is the author of the hilaious J. Coltrane Calhoun detective-mysteries, The Keys to The Car and That Hoo-Doo You Do!

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Sample Excerpt

In a time of Victorian values and Jim Crow regulations, New Orleans began a social-experiment on January 29, 1897, authored by an Alderman, Sidney Story, centralizing the city's plague of prostitution to an area of the French Quarters which was called Storyville. It was America's first lawful red-light district replete with its own Mayor, aristocracy, police-force, and a host of colorful characters who became legendary in America's music and folklore. It was a time when the infant Jazz had crawled from the honky-tonks of an all black district called The Battlefield and took its first steps in Storyville before taking its journey to entertain the world. It was in Storyville where the Frenchman, known as The La-La, was killed in a dramatic shoot-out on Easter Sunday morning in March23, 1913, the culmination of a fierce dancehall feud. The bloody massacre of that early morning changed the character of the Storyville District. The incident was cited on July 10, 1917 by the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, as one of the best examples to close down the profligate red-light districts to protect United States military officers stationed in New Orleans during WWI from vulgar harlotry, iniquity, venereal disease, and cold-blooded murder. On the early morning of November 13, 1917, the classy bordello of Madam Willie V. Piazza at 317 Basin Street had closed its doors heralding an end to the most legendary, legal, social-experiment the world had ever known...

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