Bowery Murder

A greedy womanizer is shot in a bar’s back room with five witnesses and no shortage of suspects in this mystery from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

New York City financier Thomas Woodward had a wealth of enemies. The once wizard of Wall Street faced charges of stock manipulation and left lives ruined by his greed. His notorious affairs with women garnered him the nickname “Big-hearted Tom, the Chorus Girl’s Friend,” and he left numerous broken and embittered women in his wake. There were threats to Woodward’s life on record and he was driven into hiding. It was no shock when he was found dead in the back of the Bowery Bar. The real surprises came afterward.

Woodward was shot in the presence of five witnesses, but just who exactly killed him? Reporter Watts Gordon had a splendid record, but he confessed to the murder. Police placed another suspect—famed cinema beauty Irene Williams—under a $15,000 bail. Irene, meanwhile, accuses her rival, Lila Carroll, of actually killing Woodward, and her bail is set at $25,000. Then Inspector Dan Carr brought in Rose O’Neil, the talented actress and daughter of a powerful political leader, after she confessed to being solely responsible for the murder.

Through a series of news articles, letters, and notes, follow this twisted mystery to the shocking end and hope Inspector Carr can separate the fact from the fiction and the guilty from the innocent.