JOY STREET JAIL MURDER IN A NUTSHELL

A man found drunk on a sidewalk in Boston’s West End is taken to Joy Street Jail, he’s found dead in the morning. Young Peter Attwood is the policeman who brought him in. When local politician Martin Lomasney gets complaints from his Jewish voters that the man was a well-known jeweler, medical examiner Dr. Jake Magrath is called on the carpet. Morphine poisoning caused the death. Frustrated by the shoddy police work that threatens to convict Peter of negligence, Magrath is near resigning his job. But Frances Glessner Lee and Magrath’s staff are determined to clear Peter. Blacklisted policeman Mack plunges into the multi-ethnic culture of the West End to find the truth. There are secrets buried in the depths of the settlement houses and tenements of the vibrant section of the city and they have to be exposed to exonerate the young policeman.

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"What a treat to watch Frances Glessner Lee again bring her keen eye and talent for creating miniature crime scenes to bear in discerning a dead man's truth. McNamara brings 1920 Boston to life with the details of her storytelling; readers won't want to miss this third Nutshell Murder Mystery." 

~Edith Maxwell, Agatha Award-winning author of

A Case for the Ladies and the Quaker Midwife Mysteries