Whispering Wires

A wealthy munitions magnate receives a blackmail letter hinting at dark family secrets. When Detective Triggy Drew arrives at Montgomery Stockbridge's opulent Manhattan mansion, the threat becomes chillingly real: a mysterious phone call warns of impending doom. Before Drew can unravel the web of secrets, Stockbridge is found dead in his locked library, a seemingly impossible murder in a sealed room. Drew must chase forensic clues through Grand Central Station's telephone booths, where a drill hole connecting two booths reveals a sinister eavesdropping scheme, and into the shadowy world of early twentieth-century telecommunications. This is detective fiction at its rawest: fingerprints lifted with French-gray powder, desperate races against time, and a locked-room puzzle that would confound Hercule Poirot. Written by Henry Leverage, who composed this novel during his prison sentence at Sing Sing, Whispering Wires pulses with authentic noir energy and the reckless invention of a writer with nothing left to lose. For readers who want their mysteries with period atmosphere and old-school detective work that earns every solution.