High Rollers takes another leap into the future. It takes place in New Orleans in 1925. Prohibition is in full swing. Mary O’Malley is grown up and working for Hanover Fist at his private detective agency. Regan Worth, a childhood friend of Mary’s and the daughter of famous jazz musician and bootlegger, Blazing Fingers Worth, shows up and offers to pay Hanover to escort her to the christening of a new casino riverboat. Hanover’s not big on society events, but he agrees to go because his one-man detective agency could use the cash to pay rent. Besides, he is lucky at dice. They both discover something odd about the A. Neon Mud Imp — and it’s not just the opium Regan smokes. Read an excerpt
