Dead Man's Blues av Ray Celestin

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<p><b>*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*</b><br><br>Chicago, 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.<br><br> Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl’s 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.<br><br> While the police take little interest in the Black Belt murder, crime scene photographer Jacob Russo can’t get the dead man’s image out of his head, and so he embarks on his own investigation.<br><br> And Dante Sanfelippo – rum-runner and fixer – is back in Chicago on the orders of Al Capone,