The Last Days of Louisiana Red Author:Ishmael Reed When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's MUMBO JUMBO) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propogated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers. A HooDoo detective st... more »ory and a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the '60s,« less