GERALD DUFF
Gerald Duff is a winner of the Cohen Award for Fiction, the Philosophical Society of Texas Literary Award, and the Silver Medal for Fiction from the Independent Publishers Association.Memphis Ribs is his classic tale of deception, crime, and barbecue, earning him comparison to Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, Calvin Trillin, Flannery O’Connor, and even William Faulkner.
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Booze, blues, and barbecue are
the staples of my novel MEMPHIS RIBS. The hero of my story is a failed cotton
farmer turned homicide detective in Memphis, J. W. Ragsdale, who gets his fill
of all three of these main ingredients of life in the Bluff City as he pursues
the killers of a drunken business traveler, the members of a local gang, and
the patriarch of an old society family. In his efforts to get to the bottom of
the killings, J.W. uncovers a conspiracy headed by a unusual crime syndicate
peddling bad barbecue during the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest
held on the banks of the Mississippi River.
J.W. , recently divorced and
long cut off from his landed Delta heritage, is a menthol-smoking, cat fishing
frequenter of juke joints like the Vapors
and the Owl Bar. In between bad
times domestically and personally, J.W. works his way along with his partner
Tyrone Walker through the depths and heights of Memphis society on the trail of
the sinners against barbecue and the killers of tourists and natives of the big
town on the big river.
One reviewer called MEMPHIS
RIBS so entertaining and suspenseful that readers could wonder if the author
was once part of the action. With one hand on my heart and the other on a plate
of ribs, I swear I’m just a gentle man telling a sweet story about a rough
couple of months in a quaint location in Tennessee. Please believe me. Would I
lie? Would J. W. Ragsdale lead you wrong? Not!
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