When Walls Talk: A Historical Detective Mystery by Suzanne Rudd Hamilton

Author:Suzanne Rudd Hamilton [Hamilton, Suzanne Rudd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

The Red Room hasn’t changed much in the years since I crossed its glowing red neon threshold.

Flaunting the flashy underworld sentiment of the city’s trashy old red-light districts, the lounge is still covered in shiny red wallpaper that resembles Christmas wrappings and flooded with wafting cigarette smoke amid the dimly lit neon glow. It’s truly a blast from the past, captured in the annals of time.

Not knowing who or what I’m looking for, I take a seat at the red leather bar and make myself conspicuous.

“I’m May Beck and I’ll have a bourbon, neat.” I say to the bartender loud enough to be overheard.

Soon after my drink is placed at my fingertips, a man stealthily approaches me from behind.

“You Beck?” he says in a gravelly voice.

I turn my stool around to see a gruff-looking hulk of a man shadowed by the dead light above and a stale nicotine mist. Such a visitor would startle most women. But not me. It’s just a day in the life.

“Yes,” I coolly respond. I stick out my hand to shake his, but he rebuffs it and puffs his cigarette smoke in my face.

“Here,” he says, handing me a piece of paper. Then he disappears as fast as he came.

Curious, I take a sip of my drink and read the note, cautiously hiding it from any onlooking view. It reads:

Lucky Lou, Chicago Street Tavern, 8 pm tomorrow.

It didn’t take a detective to figure out this is the name of my informant. For a moment, I wonder how they knew where or what I needed information on. The Chicago Street Tavern is a block away from the newspaper, so this Lucky must be local. But then I remember, the mob hears all and sees all, everywhere.

So I gulp the rest of my drink and leave. But as I close the heavy wooden door behind me, I hear a loud noise and see a car careening right in front of me. Then there’s a sudden flash and the car then screeches off into the distance.

My life flashes before my eyes as I’m stuck in a seeming endless void.

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