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New Orleans does not sleep — it sweats. When the newspapers announce that Mrs. Alma Lafitte has buried a second wealthy husband before the age of thirty, the whole city whispers the word it dares not print: murderess.
1 hr 15 minNo. 109
The necklace has been stolen four times in two centuries and returned three. The fourth theft comes with a body.
1 hr 17 minNo. 98
Paris, before Hastings, before Chicago, before any of it: a woman arrives at the Gare du Nord with one suitcase, three false names, and…
1 hr 33 minNo. 85
Chicago in the 1930s: a wealthy English widow walks into police headquarters and asks what it would cost to report a murder before it…
1 hr 26 minNo. 81
Havana in the 1930s: a white Art Deco casino blazing with light, American millionaires in cream dinner jackets, Cuban officials with…
1 hr 5 minNo. 78
Chicago, 1930s. The notebook marked PART ONE has been opened — and Alice Mercer's small, careful handwriting tells a story the police…
1 hr 18 minNo. 70
Chicago, 1930s: when nightclub singer Veronica Lakewood returns to her hotel after midnight to find Detective O'Rourke waiting with the…
1 hr 11 minNo. 67
Chicago in the late Jazz Age: a wealthy widow on Prairie Avenue fears she is being watched inside her own immaculate home, and a…
1 hr 28 minNo. 52
A “restful” three-day escape to Briar Glen House curdles into scandal when a hunted young widow knocks at the wrong window after midnight…
1 hr 40 minNo. 49
Chicago in winter does not lie—it exposes. When a young woman is found dead in a hotel room marked with the number 814, the crime is quickly framed as scandal and spectacle. But for Veronica Lakewood, the number is not a coincidence—it is a signature meant to turn her into a public villain.
1 hr 39 minNo. 35
Chicago was supposed to be a quiet evening. A famous jazz bar, good music, no work—just Veronica Lakewood and Captain Hastings attempting…
44 minNo. 32
Chicago was counting down to midnight. Champagne flowed. Music rose. And beneath the glitter of wealth and confidence…
1 hr 24 minNo. 15
A midnight shooting in a luxury hotel. A baseball idol who survives when he should have died. And a showgirl who fires twice — and still…
1 hr 14 minNo. 7