City Lights: A Fog City Noir Mystery by Johnson, Claire M.

City Lights: A Fog City Noir Mystery

Word spreads that Nick Moore has left San Francisco for good, leaving Maggie Laurent struggling to keep...
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City Lights: A Fog City Noir Mystery by Johnson, Claire M.

City Lights: A Fog City Noir Mystery

$26.16

City Lights: A Fog City Noir Mystery

$26.16
Author: Claire M. Johnson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Word spreads that Nick Moore has left San Francisco for good, leaving Maggie Laurent struggling to keep the Moore Detective Agency afloat. Cops, the D.A., and the other private detectives in town all predict she'll be out of business by Christmas, and she's not sure they aren't right. Then one day, her silent partner, Dickie Vance, invites her to lunch. He has a job for her. Find out what's going on with Herman Peters, Dickie's favorite cab driver and one of the "Nob Hill Irregulars" that feeds him gossip on the city's elite.

During their weekly boxing lesson, Maggie learns that Herman's fiancée, Vera Kowalski, has dumped him and tasks Maggie with finding out why. This simple request leads Maggie deep into the world of labor unrest, the IWW, the Sedition Act, and into the arms of one of Herman's friends, a charming-as-hell Irishman. As the state gubernatorial election draws near, the city brass will pull out the stops to ensure that San Francisco remains peaceful for the next few months, even as the aftermath of the stock market crash begins to bite-and bite hard. Banks start foreclosing on homes, families sleep in their cars, men sleep on the sidewalks, soup lines begin to form, and the rumblings of union busting get louder. When this powder keg of unrest explodes with the arrival of Pinkerton operatives, the chain reaction of murder and violence threatens the lives of union members, cops-and Maggie herself.



Author: Claire M. Johnson
Publisher: Level Best - Historia
Published: 07/15/2025
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9798898200077

About the Author
Johnson, Claire M.: - Ms. Johnson's first novel, Beat Until Stiff, was nominated for the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was a Booksense pick. Her second book in this series, Roux Morgue, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Fog City, her noir crime novel set in Prohibition-era San Francisco featuring Maggie Laurent, P.I., debuted in July 2024 from Level Best Books. This book, the first in the Fog City Noir series, has been nominated for both a Shamus and a Macavity Award. City Lights is the second book in this series, and Crookedest Street in the World, the third book in this series, will debut in the summer of 2026. Ms. Johnson was past-President of the Mystery Writers of America's Northern California Chapter.

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