Death's White City — James Sherburne

A girl could get lost in Chicago....

A reporter who freely traded information for ale, Boz Markey knew no newspaper in town would print anything that might drive away the tourists. Besides, disappearing women just weren't news--not in Chicago and not in the 1890s. The times were wild, the city was hot, the bizarre was expected.

But to Paddy Moretti--the Irish-Italian racing reporter for New York's The Spirit of the Times and a man who knew a bit about ale himself--there was one missing female worth finding: Velma LeSeure, a stranger on a train for whom the expression "hourglass figure" must have been coined.

He was supposed to be in town for the big race, though, the American Derby. And there was a man with an ice pick whose job was to see that old Paddy kept his mind on the horses....