The Wednesday Book

San Francisco, 1941. "I need your help, Mr. Hill. Someone is trying to kill me."

Jessica Whitlock is a millionaire's wife from the wrong side of the tracks, and she is dead by morning — shot in her dressing room while the family's dog, which barks at every stranger, gave no alarm. The police come for the last man who saw her: Dixon Hill.

A torn page from a book nobody is permitted to read. A gangster who wants it. A judge, thirty-five years dead, who once ruled that in a city without addresses, no notice is required. Hill can prove the murder to a court. He cannot prove what he knows — and the dog that did nothing has already told him who.

Book 3 of seven. A city that keeps its own books.