
The plan is simple. A favor really. All Nick Travers, a former professional football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly.
His friend's brother is Clyde James, who, in 1968, was one of the finest soul singers Memphis had to offer. But when James's wife and close friend were murdered, his life was shattered. He turned to the streets, where, decades ago, he disappeared.
Travers's search for the singer soon leads him to the casinos in Tunica, Mississippi, and converges with the agenda of the Dixie Mafia, a zealot gubernatorial candidate linked to a neo-Confederacy movement, and an obsessed killer who thinks he has a true spiritual link to the late Elvis Presley.
Genre: Mystery
His friend's brother is Clyde James, who, in 1968, was one of the finest soul singers Memphis had to offer. But when James's wife and close friend were murdered, his life was shattered. He turned to the streets, where, decades ago, he disappeared.
Travers's search for the singer soon leads him to the casinos in Tunica, Mississippi, and converges with the agenda of the Dixie Mafia, a zealot gubernatorial candidate linked to a neo-Confederacy movement, and an obsessed killer who thinks he has a true spiritual link to the late Elvis Presley.
Genre: Mystery
Used availability for Ace Atkins's The Dark End of the Street
Hardback Editions
September 2002 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2011 : USA Paperback
December 2003 : USA Mass Market Paperback
2002 : USA Paperback

Title: Dark End of the Street: A Novel
Author(s): Ace Atkins
ISBN: 0-06-052609-2 / 978-0-06-051826-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: William Morrow Imprint of Harp
Availability: Amazon
Audio Editions
October 2002 : USA Audio Cassette
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March 2012 : USA, Canada, UK Kindle edition