Crime fiction readers who insist that the good guys win and the bad guyslose, and that you ought to at least be able to tell the two apart, should steera wide course around Steve Monroe's '46, Chicago. Moral compromise andrelativism are the very foun...
A slice of underworld life, ’57, Chicago is a fact-based fictional thriller. The banker’s dead -- a mob killing with repercussions. Money’s tied up. Three men are on a collision course: Al. He’s a layoff bookie, thinks he can live as a middle...
Dateline Chicago, 1946: Policy, the illegal lottery, makes millions of dollars for racketeers in Chicago’s black community. But the numbers don’t add up when kingpin Ed Jones is kidnapped. Who grabbed him? The mob? Another policy wheel operator? ...