The Detroit Electric Scheme: A Mystery: 1 (Detroit Mysteries 1)

Will Anderson is a drunk heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancée Elizabeth. Hes barely kept his job at his fathers company---Detroit Electric 1910s leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night Elizabeths new fiancé and Wills one-time friend John Cooper asks Will to meet him at the car factory. He finds Cooper dead crushed in a huge hydraulic roof press. Surprised by the police Will panics and runs leaving behind his cap and automobile and buries his blood-spattered clothing in a garbage can.. What follows is a fast-paced detail-filled ride through early-1900s Detroit involving murder blackmail organized crime the development of a wonderful friendship and the inside story on early electric automobiles. Through it all Will learns that clearing himself of the crime he was framed for is only the beginning. To survive and for his loved ones to survive he must also become a man.. The Detroit Electric Scheme is populated with fascinating characters both real and fictional from a then-flourishing Detroit: The Dodge brothers and Edsel Ford come to life interacting with denizens of the sordid underbelly of the Motor City such as Vito Adamo Detroits first Mob boss and Big Boy the bouncer at a saloon so notorious the newspapers called it The Bucket of Blood. This expertly plotted debut delivers with great research wonderfully flawed yet likable characters and a shattering climax.