The Sound of the Trumpet

by Bill Moody
Evan Horne is still recovering from a hand injury when his friend Ace Buffington asks him to come to Las Vegas to help verify the authenticity of some tapes supposedly made by the legendary trumpet ace Clifford Brown just before his death in a 1956 auto crash. It looks like an interesting break from a depressing routine for Horne, but things quickly go wrong. The man who owns the tapes is killed, and Horne winds up with an old trumpet that might be Brown's and a murder investigation that is turning toward Horne as the prime suspect.. 

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"For a lively trip into the world of jazz musicians and murder there's no better guide than Bill Moody. Don't miss Death of a Tenor Man."
                         --Tony Hillerman

"These pages sing . . . Moody mixes real-life jazz legends with his own characters in a solid mystery."
                         --Publishers Weekly

Death of a Tenor Man

by Bill Moody
Evan Horne is playing piano at the Fashion Show Mall as he recovers from an injury to his right hand. His old friend Ace Buffington asks him to look for a few answers about the mysterious death of tenor sax player Wardell Gray. Horne doesn't realize that asking a few questions about this decades-old murder can bring a lot of heat, including a confrontation with a mobster. 

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"Was Chet Baker pushed, or did he fly? Sleuthing Amsterdam for the answer, post-bop pianist Evan Horne plays it cool to the point of Zen through underworld investigations and bandstand triumphs. So does Author Bill Moody, who writes as an insider of a jazzman's work and world."
                         --Howard Mandel, author of Future Jazz

Looking for Chet Baker
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by Bill Moody
Evan Horne, recovering from both the injury to his hand and to his psyche, is on tour in England, hoping to concentrate on music and not on crime. But his old friend Ace Buffington, who's led him into trouble before, shows up with a contract to write a biography of legendary trumpeter Chet Baker. Baker died from a fall from the window of his hotel room in 1988. Whether he fell, or was pushed is one of the mysteries of the jazz world. Evan resists this adventure until Ace turns up missing and leaves him no choice. To find Ace, he will have to dig into the mysterious death of Chet Baker. 

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& quot;A virtuoso performance...an artful fusion of jazz and murder."
                    --Jerry Kennealy
                        author of Vintage Polo

"A tightly wrapped and well-paced novel...fresh and jazzy in more ways than one."
                   --Les Roberts
                        author of The Lemon Chicken Jones

Solo Hand

by Bill Moody
Evan Horne, once a world class pianist, is now a man with a broken hand and a broken career. When former boss, singer Lonnie Cole, asks him to be intermediary in the payment of blackmail, Horne is unable to resist. But trading money for embarrassing photos turns out to be complicated. Pretty soon the money is gone, but the photos haven't turned up. Instead there's a fresh body on the beach. And Horne is looking more  and more like a suspect.

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