In Solo Time

An Alcoholic Walks Into ABar ...And Buys ItAt The Urging Of His Sometimes Lover And Sometimes Drinking Partner Jacquie Robillard, Elder Darrow Uses The Last Of The Money From The Trust Fund His Mother Left Him To Buy The Esposito, ABucketofblood Bar In Boston That He Plans To Turn Into AJazz NightclubBut Before He Can Turn The Place Around, The Body Of Timmy Mcguire, AJazz Guitar Player, Shows Up On The Small Stage At The Esposito, Stabbed To DeathDan Burton, ABoston Homicide Detective, Likes Jacquie For The MurderShe Had AContentious Relationship With The Guitar Player and AFew Other Men Along The WayBut One Of The Other Men Jacquie Is Involved With Is The Son Of An Oldline Boston Landlord With Political Designs On The Commonwealth?s GovernorshipBurton Arrests Jacquie For Timmy Mcguire?s Murder But Elder Is Certain Something Darker And Deeper Than ALover?s Quarrel Is At StakeJacquie Is Released On BailWhen She Shows Up Dead, Elder Is Drawn Into AConspiracy Going Back To Timmy?s Childhood, An Arson In The Threedecker In Mattapan Where He Grew Up, And The Unraveling Of APolitical ConspiracyElder?s Need To Solve Timmy?s Murder Peaks When His Jazz Singer Lady Friend, Alison Somers, Is Kidnapped By The PerpetratorsIn The End, He Has To Solve The Mystery And Rescue Alison Without The Help Of The Police Or Anyone Else.
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