N S Wikarski

Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries: Omnibus One: Books 1-3 N S Wikarski

To solve baffling crimes in turn-of-the-century Chicago, you only need to know a single fact. Bygone sins in the White City cast the longest shadows.
Revised 2020 Edition. Nominated for Reader's Choice Awards as Best First Novel and Best Historical Mystery For Fans of Cozy Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, and Gilded Age Chicago History
GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES
Gilded Age Chicago is the fastest growing metropolis in America, rivaling New York as the City of the Century. This melting pot of thieves and corrupt politicians, robber barons and immigrants, is rife with scandal and social injustice. An eccentric heiress and a star reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City.

Volume One - The Fall of White City
A socialite stalks a murderer against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

Volume Two - Shrouded in Thought
A drowned factory girl provokes a labor riot during the Pullman Strike of 1894.

Volume Three - The Black Widow's Prey
The consulting detectives cross paths with a previous generation of Arkana agents over the theft of an Egyptian artifact in 1895.