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The Yankee Quartet; Four Charlotte Holmes mysteries set in the United States during the 1920s.
Chicago, USA, 1924
Charlotte is asked by her husband to help The Chicago Trumpet, a once great newspaper, now fallen on hard times.
She and Watan clash with Gordy Bennett, the tyrannical Editor, and are drawn into the case of a native American, Cherokee Joe, waiting to be executed.
As they investigate, they realise he is innocent and develop an audacious plan to restage the trial, as a stage play, to reveal the true killer.
Rehearsals don’t go to plan until Emily and Lola, Watan’s old flame, take charge.
Once again Emily's love life complicates matters, when she falls in love with a gangster, Johnny Dapper, however hiss loyalties are torn when Al 'Scarface' Capone orders him to stop the play.
In India, Becky arrives, accompanied by Jack Straw, a musician of indeterminate pedigree, to inform Branwell she is selling her family’s residence and divorcing him.
Events become complicated when she is kidnapped by his former lover, Durga the Dacoit, who demands a rendezvous to settle old scores.
It's a race against time, across two continents, to save an innocent man and a not-so innocent wife.
Author's Notes - Spoiler Warning
This book is the second installment in the Yankee Quartet, four stories set in the USA during the 1920s, which will traverse the great continent westwards.TBC
