Lady Crymsyn — P.N. Elrod

Vampire detective .Jack Fleming has made a good bit of money cleaning up the streets of post-prohibition Chicago--enough to realize his long-time dream of owning a nightclub where a man can get a legal drink, and where .Jack's songbird girlfriend can headline the floor show.

But renovations on the speakeasy come to a crashing halt when workmen discover the skeletal remains of a woman's body--clad in a distinctive red dress--walled up in the basement. Jack may have become a creature of the night, but he's still a man with a strong sense of justice. And he won't rest until he finds out who killed the lady in red--even if it means resurrecting secrets the mob would kill to keep buried...