She Murdered Me with Science
- Authors
- David Boop
- Publisher
- WordFire Press
- Tags
- science fiction , noir , pulp , mystery , forensics , private investigators , scientists , mad scientists , maser , mayans , ninjas , hit men , femme fatales , interracial romance , the fifties , chicago , dwight d eisenhower , j. edgar hoover , art shay , james watson , trumple park , the green mill , casinos , the blues , boxing , sidney bechet , rocky graziano , nuclear weapons , assassinations , joseph stalin , spies , con artistes , the technocrats , military combat , racial tensions , go game , hudson cars , allen dulles , arthur william radford , bessie smith , margaret johnson , mvd russian secret police , alexander bogdanov , fredrick taylor
- Date
- 2017
- Size
- 0.50 MB
- Lang
- en
It's 1953 and I'm a shamus working the streets of Industry City. I don't rely on instinct; science is my game. The cases I get, and the booze I drink, keep oblivion just a step away. That is, until some rich recluse walks in and tells me that accident from all this years ago was a set-up, a frame job, and I was meant to take the fall.Now I have to clear my name... like that's easy. Everyone's keeping secrets. Who can I trust? My neighbor, the mysteriously connected Wan Lee? Or the songbird Merlot Sterling? Her lies are almost as beautiful as her voice. Even the muscle-bound bodyguard I inherited can't keep the hit men, spies or my own government from trying to put me six-feet under.You see, this secret organization believes I know something and wants to keep me quiet. All I do know is they're aiming to remake the world into their own twisted image using a device I created. They've already axed one world leader, and Ike could be next.God, I...