Dead Mans Blues, Ray CelestinChicago, 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. But it proves harder than expected and Ida must elicit the help of her friend Louis Armstrong to track her down.

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she becomes the living incarnation of a reviled social policy violently at odds with deep-rooted cultural values

but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty

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