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Fog over Pier Nine
Port Calloway, 1947. A broke detective, a client who lies beautifully, a body under Pier 9, and a city where everyone has a price.
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Port Calloway, October 1947. The fog comes in off the bay every night, the bell on Pier 9 rings every thirty seconds until dawn, and the city runs on favours. On Tuesday morning the police pull a body from under Pier 9 and close the case by lunchtime: Danny Royce, a quiet clerk at the Harbor Commission, drowned.
On Tuesday night a woman in grey climbs four flights of stairs to a detective's office on Garnet Street, where the rent is two months late, and pays a hundred dollars to find her younger brother. The police say he's dead. She says he isn't. She is lying about something, and she is not the only one.
A noir investigation in two days and two nights for a lone private eye or a group (the detective, the beat cop, the singer, the struck-off doctor): follow the clues, pin them to the board, catch the liars, and decide what the truth is worth when you finally hold it in your hands.
People you might meet
Celia Vane
Society hostess, wife of the Harbor Commissioner, the heroes' client
The client: the Harbor Commissioner's young wife, elegant and frightened, who hires a detective to find her missing younger brother.
August Vane
Harbor Commissioner of Port Calloway, candidate for mayor
The Harbor Commissioner: the most powerful man on the waterfront, a likely candidate for mayor, genial in public and patient in private.
Frank Kessler
Detective sergeant, Harbor Precinct homicide and vice
Detective sergeant at the Harbor Precinct: twenty years on the force, a closing rate everyone envies, and friends in high places.
Ruth Halloran
Detective, Harbor Precinct, Kessler's partner
The only woman detective in the Harbor Precinct: Kessler's partner, overlooked, underpaid, and quietly keeping a file of her own.
Dr. Ambrose Pike
City medical examiner, the morgue under the Harbor Precinct
The city's medical examiner: a brilliant pathologist gone to drink, who works in the basement of the Harbor Precinct and talks to the dead.
Abe Lindqvist
Crime reporter, Calloway Evening Clarion
A crime reporter at the Evening Clarion, once its star, now writing three paragraphs from the police blotter and waiting for one more big story.
Lou Castellano
Boss of the waterfront: cannery owner, nightclub owner, moneylender
The waterfront's boss: cannery owner, nightclub owner, moneylender and the man who decides who works on the docks.
Lila Moreau
Star singer at the Copper Cat, under contract to Lou Castellano
The singer at the Copper Cat: a voice like smoke, a contract with Lou Castellano and, the bartenders say, a friend of the drowned clerk.
Hosea Grant
Keeper of the Pier 9 fog bell and lantern
The keeper of the Pier 9 fog bell for thirty-one years: an old man who sees everything in the fog and has decided, this week, to see nothing.
Gus Brannigan
Business agent of the longshoremen's Local 9
The business agent of the longshoremen's Local 9: a big, angry, honest man whose brother died in the Warehouse 9B fire.
Danny Royce
Filing clerk at the Harbor Commission, the missing man
The missing man: a clerk at the Harbor Commission, twenty-six, quiet and clever, missing since Saturday; the police say he drowned.
Sister Agnes Dunleavy
Mother superior of St. Brendan's Seamen's Mission
The nun who runs St. Brendan's Seamen's Mission: seventy, sharp-tongued, afraid of nothing, and on first-name terms with half the sailors of the world.
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