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Podmore, P.I. - Part 14
Long time no see, cats. I know it's been a while, but if you listen hard you can hear the soft tones of a King Oliver record straining through a Victrola in a fourth-floor walkup apartment, and maybe the crash of an illegal beer bottle falling into a bin full of others.
That would be because after a long break, we return to Chicago, 1926. The city is a battleground where crooked cops bounce back and forth between the rival Mafia powers of Black and Lestrange and Mayor Tom Riddle looms over them all - and somewhere down below, the few good people left try to topple the machine from underneath.
Currently the one of those with the best chance of tipping the balance of power is Sturgis Podmore, Private Investigator. When we last left the detective, he had just returned from a trip to Indiana to bring some evidence to Agent Edgar Bones of the FBI. Now he's heading back to everyone's favorite illegal speakeasy to have a chat with Mr. Sirius Black, so let's have a look...