Lewis 'Lew' Griffin is a busy man in New Orleans.

He is meant to be a university lecturer in English literature who is writing a novel. But every so often he is persuaded to turn detective.

He now has a number of mysteries going on all at once.

A man has left hospital claiming to be him, and he's agreed to help a student find his brother - and his neighbours want him to sort out the local hoodlums problem too.

Detective novel written by James Sallis.

Read by Ray Shell.

Abridged and produced by Gordon House.

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in March 2006. Show less