Dead Man's Blues

In the sweltering summer of 1928 Chicago, a city simmering with jazz, Prohibition-era vice, and deep-seated corruption, a trio of unsettling events throws the metropolis into disarray. A cabal of city leaders falls victim to a poisoning at a luxurious hotel, a prominent white gangster is brutally murdered in the segregated Black Belt, and a celebrated heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are tasked with finding the missing socialite, a search that proves maddeningly difficult, forcing Ida to enlist the help of her friend, the legendary Louis Armstrong. Meanwhile, crime scene photographer Jacob Russo, haunted by the image of the mutilated gangster, embarks on his own investigation, sensing a truth the police ignore. Adding to the volatile mix, rum-runner and fixer Dante Sanfelippo returns to Chicago under orders from Al Capone, tasked with rooting out a traitor within the mob's ranks, confronting a past he desperately sought to escape. As these disparate investigations intertwine, the paths of Talbot, Davis, Russo, and Sanfelippo converge, pushing them closer to a dangerous truth in a city where secrets are deadly and justice is a luxury.