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Title: The Blue Door

Author: David Fulmer

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

David Fulmer, author of the acclaimed Storyville series, now brings us to the vibrant city of Philadelphia and the early days of its famous soul music.

Welterweight boxer Eddie Cero is out of the ring with an injury, but he still cant bear to see an unfair fight. In a Philadelphia alley, he steps in on two punks beating up an older manand the victim, a private detective, buys Eddie a round and offers him a parttime gig. After a few days on the job, Eddie stumbles on a cold case involving the frontman for the Excels, one of Philadelphias best soul acts. A music lover and big fan of the group, Eddie starts investigating the case out of curiosity, but the missing singers talented sister draws him deep into a violent, twisted story of betrayal and intrigue, power and passionall set to the beat of Philadelphia soul.

Critic Reviews:

[Fulmer has] nailed both the city and the musicStudents of American roots music should find much to cherish in Fulmers books. Each is a highly personal serenade to Americas past. (Washington Post)

Members Reviews:

"Mood Indigo"

**.."Midnight - one more night without sleepin'

Watchin', till the mornin' comes creepin'

Green Door! what's that secret you're keepin'?".. (Jim Lowe's Green Door) **

The door was blue, not green, but behind it's facade there was indeed a "secret" being cloistered there. Set in Philadelphia of the early 1960's, the book has musical nostalgia mixing plentifully with the story line. Eddie Cero, a boxer who is having second thoughts about climbing into the ring for "the next last time" happens to witness a brawl in an alley while he is despondently walking home one late night, lost in thoughts of what must be his next career move. Fighting has never spooked Eddie yet, and he comes to the rescue of a man who turns out to be Sal Giambroni - a partially successful private eye with a host of questionable "contacts". The brawl is not what it seems, either; it is two goons all right, but they are nephews of the guy's ex wife trying to exact more money from him in the simplest sense of the word. Sal offers to buy Eddie a drink, which he accepts, and due to both the interception on Sal's behalf, and the fact that he has been a fighter of measurable talent, he is offered a job running relief work at Sal's "obviously too practical office".

Eddie has no intention of staying with this new job opportunity he feels he is unsuited for, but one day fades into another; Sal is good to him, and he begins to warm to the subject of snooping into the affairs of others. One night spots a sultry singer at one of the clubs that he remembers - Eddie has an intense interest in music and musicians. He remembers that this girl was once part of a group called the "Excels", and that the genius behind the group was a boy named Johnny Pope, who had mysteriously disappeared one night three years past, and what was even more curious was that the investigation into his disappearance never went anywhere, and the case had been largely forgotten. But now, with the experience he has picked up within his new line of work, Eddie is intrigued. He begins to ask a few questions; those questions lead to more questions, not the least of which is the fact that nobody, including the sultry sister he discovered at the club that evening, wants anyone to look into it.