Thomas Beltzer was at Burke's on Thursday, May 17th, reading from and signing copies of his new novel, Parcheesi Blues (Livingston Press, $15.95 pb, $26 hc).
Elvis’s birthday in Memphis, and crowds again head to Graceland and the King’s tomb. Across town, a new King is gracing Memphis: John Grisham, best-selling author extraordinaire. The King is dead! Long live the King! But at Bailey’s the afternoon coffee crowd of losers is gathering as normal. Losers? Not when you read the secrets they hold that made them such. . . . A blues guitarist who overheard the plot to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . involving J. Edgar Hoover! An ex-journalist who stumbled upon a Contra training ground in Arkansas. A co-ed stripper whose brothers forced her to participate in safe heists. An autistic man named Gustav Mahler, who only wants music—and love. All types of royalty, it turns out, may thrive just where you least expect to find it.
Hailing from West Tennessee, Thomas Beltzer is a singer/songwriter who worked as a musician in Memphis and plays originals and Classic covers oriented around the Delta Blues and Sun & Stax Studios. He now lives in Texas.
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