Detroit Shuffle: 4 (Detroit Mysteries)

Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume get caught up in the political turmoil over womens suffrage in Detroit Shuffle the fourth book in D. E. Johnsons critically acclaimed 1910s Detroit seriesWill Anderson inadvertently breaks up a key suffrage rally when he thwarts a gunman set on killing his lover Elizabeth Hume. No one else saw the man and Elizabeth believes he hallucinated the entire incident a side effect of the radium treatment he received at Eloise Hospital. She asks him to sit on the sidelines while she and her companions try to get the womens suffrage amendment passed by Michigan voters.Instead Will sets out to protect Elizabeth and prove his sanity. Wills nemesis Sapphira Xanakis contacts him with news of a conspiracy to defeat the amendment led by Andrew Murphy head of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association. Against his better judgment Will believes she is trying to help. The man she directs him to dies under suspicious circumstances. An old acquaintance of Wills who is working for the MLBA is shot and killed in front of him. Still no one believes Will including his former ally Detective Riordan who not only is unwilling to help but seems to have secrets of his own.With new death threats against Elizabeth and the next rally only a few days away Will has to unravel a complicated tapestry of blackmail double-dealing conspiracy and murder―before the killer has his next chance to strike. Johnsons immaculate plotting and high-tension writing make for a spellbinding read set in early twentieth-century Detroit.