Goodreads asked Gene Poschman:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Gene Poschman To New Orleans in The Case of the Bourbon Street Hustler. It was the 1930s, prohibition was ending, and the Crescent City as it was known back then was alive with jazz, blues, and adventure. America was between wars, one becoming a distant memory and the other not here yet. I would ride the streetcars, walk Bourbon Street, and take in the atmosphere of a city in turmoil, looking for ways to make things right.

I would work on a riverboat loading and unloading cargo and sweating to an honest day's work and spend my nights listening to the music of that great city.

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