I've heard the toughest of my books to find has been Leavin' Trunk Blues. My second novel was published way back in 2000, taking Nick Travers up to Chicago to interview a jailed blues singer named Ruby Walker. The research on this novel also took me to Chicago a lot, much of it on the South Side. I had the fortune of hanging out in some of the city's best blues clubs -- seeing the late Honeyboy Edwards, Junior Wells, Hubert Sumlin, and Pinetop Perkins. You talk about hardboiled. Man, these guys lived the life. What a thrill as a young writer getting to see and hear the masters in person. I know I learned as much about writing from them as I did Chandler and Hammett. The novel was rereleased on kindle this week.