The Story Of Lackey
This is the first book of Dirty Work, a series set in 1930s Chicago.
The story centers Owen Shayne, a washed-up gambler who gets blackmailed into a life of crime. In his fight to find a way out, he meets a number of shady characters–among them, the mysterious underworld legend known only as Lackey.
Background
Over a century ago a new genre took shape within the pulp pages of the old dime novel magazines—The Hardboiled Mystery.
This era of gunslinging, wise-cracking heroes, femme fatales, and villainous crime-lords reached a climatic height in the 1940s with the rise of cinema’s Film Noir. Then it slowly began to fade. But it left behind a multitude of timeless classics.
Drawing inspiration from these classics, Isabella Adams revisits the genre with her own twists.