San Francisco is feeling the effects of the great depression like everywhere else. Many people are out of work, and the Moore Detective agency’s owner, Nick, has just decamped to Chicago, leaving Maggie to try and run the business herself and get some clients before it goes under. A wealthy local friend of Maggie’s, wants her to find out what is bothering Herman, a local cab driver whose fiancée Vera has dumped him. Could the handsome Irishman she met be involved? The investigation isn’t as simple as it seems because Maggie learns more than she bargains for about local labor unrest and union busting as politics, money, and murder collide in this historical mystery. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC.