Smoke and Mirrors
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Last published Sat, Oct 10, 2020
tough day at the office for detective Alec Anderson. The boss is fed up with his conduct, his wife is angry, and he's now in charge of a new trainee; also, the paper work keeps piling up: Murder, Racism, Rioting, and other cases of civil unrest. Set during the Great Depression Era of American History in 1935, Alec Anderson is tasked to get to the bottom of these cases before he reaches the end of the bottle.
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