Under the Table
(2026)(Book 13 in the O'Malley Investigations Mystery series)
A Story by Daniel Pelfrey
A cop is dead. The file is sealed. Somebody is still paying his widow to keep quiet.
Chicago, 1926.Prohibition money is remaking the city, and in one police district the going rate for a raid schedule, a witness's name, or a piece of evidence gone missing is whatever the buyer will pay. They call it the table.
Paddy O'Malley used to carry a badge. Now no station house in Chicago will give him the time of day, and the one man who can ask him for a favor is the partner he failed five years ago. Kit Ashworth was raised on Prairie Avenue and works the front desk, which is exactly why nobody notices her doing the thinking.
A young patrolman went looking for proof the table existed. Two weeks later he was buried with full honors and an accident on his death certificate.
Somebody is still afraid of what he found.
Under the Table is a fast, self-contained 1920s Chicago mystery. If you like Prohibition-era crime, a detective duo with a debt between them, and a puzzle that plays fair, start here. No cliffhanger, no homework, no need to have read the first twelve.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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