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and when he learns the truth--that this island is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined--he is determined to blow the whole thing open

As the investigation spirals out of control

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Shadow Ticket nature while investigating bizarre deaths inMilwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune