Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Black Belt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girls troubled mother. 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. While the police take little interest in the Black Belt murder, crime scene photographer Jacob Russo cant get the dead mans image out of his head, and so he embarks on his own investigation. And Dante Sanfelippo rumrunner and fixer is back in Chicago on the orders of Al Capone, who suspects theres a traitor in the ranks and wants Dante to investigate. But Dante is struggling with problems of his own as he is forced to return to the city he thought hed never see again . . . As the three parties edge closer to the truth, their paths cross and their lives are threatened. But will any of them find the answers they need in the capital of blues, booze and corruption?Dead Mans Blues is the gripping second installment in Ray Celestins prizewinning City Blues quartet. It is followed by the third book in the series, The Mobsters Lament.

Binding: Paperback;512 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FFH; Weight: 472 g; Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 34

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