Dead Man's Blues

Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detective Ida Davis is hired to find the missing heiress. But it proves harder than expected to find a face that is known across the city, and Ida must elicit the help of her friend Louis Armstrong. By the winner of the CWA John Creasey Dagger for Best First Novel