The Axeman's Jazz (City Blues Quartet)

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Oubicon was later released as police were unable to gather sufficient evidence to hold him accountable for the crimes. Besumer's legal wife arrived from Cincinnati in the days immediately following the discovery, which further inflamed the ongoing drama. According to scholar Richard Warner, [7] the chief suspect in the crimes was Frank "Doc" Mumphrey (1875–1921), who used the alias Leon Joseph Monfre/Manfre.

So despite his sloppy victim survival rate of 50%, you got to hand it to the Axeman of New Orleans — he had a fine taste in music. There is a reference to him liking jazz, as well as his famous quote from the infamous Axeman's Letter which is used to describe the special axe that can be found, known as the Esteemed Mortal.Sisters Pauline and Mary were staying at their uncle Joseph’s house on the eve of August 10, 1918, when they were awoken by the noise from a fight between the Axeman of New Orleans and their uncle.

A sentence from the Axeman's letter to The Times-Picayune is spoken at the beginning of Fila Brazillia's song "Tunstall and Californian Haddock. Hoping that thou wilt publish this, that it may go well with thee, I have been, am and will be the worst spirit that ever existed either in fact or realm of fantasy. The spouses were found with their throats slashed and their heads bashed in with an axe that he found inside the Maggio residence. As mentioned previously, Lowe was hacked above her left ear and found unconscious at the scene of the crime before she was rushed to Charity Hospital.Sunset Swing brings Ray Celestin’s brilliant City Blues Quartet to an end in quite some style… The best book in a quite remarkable series. The windows and doors of the apartment appear to have not been forced open, and authorities came to the conclusion that the woman was most likely attacked with a lamp that had been on a nearby table. Her dawning realisation that her neighbours are deliberately making her life difficult, and that she isn't always alone in her new house, makes for a superbly eerie read and prevents this from becoming too much of a heavy-handed "issue novel". And often, the Axeman of New Orleans would use whatever was available, like a hatchet, straight razor, or butcher’s knife. Abbott, whose previous novel, Dare Me, featured a squad of high-school cheerleaders, has a knack for capturing the emotional landscape of the teenage girl in a way that is terrifyingly, appallingly real.

In the virtual reality game The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners multiple references to the Axeman can be found. A less plausible theory is that the killer committed the murders in an attempt to promote jazz music, suggested by a letter attributed to the killer in which he stated that he would spare the lives of those who played jazz in their homes. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a news satire program, mentioned The Axeman on episode 13 of season 6, titled "Medical Devices.The crimes were not motivated by robbery, and the perpetrator never removed items from his victims' homes. The City Blues Quartet is a series of novels plotting the intertwined history of Jazz and the Mob through six decades in the 20th century. Dantonio described the potential killer as an individual of dual personalities, who killed without motive. Additionally, because of the Italian angle, investigators also questioned whether or not the attacks were Mafia-related.

Sunset Swing may be an ode to the classics of hard-boiled noir, but it has more than enough rhythm of its own to take its place beside them. The main theme of the book is truth and prejudice – how what we consider to be the truth may just be our own, personal interpretation of the world around us, and how that interpretation can be influenced by our prejudices. Just prior to her death, Lowe told authorities that she suspected it was Louis Besumer who had attacked her.A Charity Hospital source discovered the scandal, when Besumer asked to be directed to the room of "Mrs.