McKee of Centre Street

A speakeasy performer is murdered in this pioneering mystery from the mother of the police procedural.

When one of New York’s favourite dancers is killed in a crowded high-tone speakeasy, everyone present becomes a suspect—and those that may have eluded questioning as well. It’s up to Inspector McKee of the NYPD to sift through the witness statements, separate fact from fiction, and put together a picture of the crime as it happened in order to discover what’s missing from the official narra...