All aboard for a fast-paced, Jazz Age-era murder mystery set aboard a
Chicago-bound train! It's 1923, and thirteen-year-old Bobby Lee
Claremont is leaving the Sisters of Charitable Mercy orphanage in New
Orleans, certain a better life awaits in Chicago's glamorous-sounding
mob scene. But his plans unravel when he boards his train and meets the
recently widowed Nanette O'Halloran, her two traveling companions, and a
cop who suspects the trio of murdering Nanette's husband. Bobby Lee is
sure Nanette's innocent. But what about her companions? As Bobby Lee
digs for answers, he discovers the mob, Prohibition, segregation, and a
famed jazz band are all pieces of an increasingly dangerous puzzle.
A Junior Library Guild selection.