Blowing Weather

The docks breathe with money and menace in this forgotten American noir. Anthony Stevens has returned to his hometown after years away, but the city he remembered has become a foreign country. The wharves roar with commerce, the Black Horse Tavern hums with whispered deals, and everywhere Anthony looks, he sees the hard faces of men who grew rich while he was gone. When his search for the merchant Magruder leads him through a web of uneasy alliances and pointed silences, he realizes something is deeply wrong. There's an urgent matter at hand, something tied to his family's legacy that others would rather keep buried. As Anthony navigates a world of opportunity and danger, he discovers that the merchant trade and secrets walk hand in hand, and the price of the truth might be higher than any cargo his father ever handled. Blowing Weather was published in 1923, during a golden year for American letters, and it captures a young country still finding itself, old commerce colliding with new ambition. It's for readers who love historical noir, homecomings gone wrong, and the idea that you can never fully escape where you came from.