The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

T. Although the novel's fantasy elements (voodoo and black magic tarot readings and precognition ghosts and mysticism) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels (Dragons series) Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild. Heck
Phule's Errand (2006) with Peter J.