Crossroad Blues - A Nick Travers Mystery Author:Ace Atkins On August 15, 1938, the most celebrated figure in blues history, Robert Johnson, was murdered outside a Greenwood, Mississippi, juke joint. More than 50 years after, a college professor, following rumors of nine unknown Johnson recordings, disappears in the Mississippi Delta. Blues historian Nick Travers leaves New Orleans to track down the miss... more »ing professor--and to unravel the greatest mystery in all of blues lore.« less