About the Book: Shadow Ticket
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition
just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation
business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind.
Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks hes found
job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating
and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune whos taken a mind to
go wandering. Before he knows it, hes been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner,
ending up eventually in Hungary where theres no shoreline, a language from some
other