Friday, December 2, 2011

THE FIFTH FLOOR by Michael Harvey

Finished Fr 12/2/11

The Great Chicago Fire 10/8-10/1871 Destroyed four square miles. One of the largest natural disasters of the nineteenth century.

Michael Kelly PI/ex Chicago detective
The Fifth Floor is is the office of the mayor in city hall

Murder and theft of book about fire

Distant relative of the current mayor might have set the Great Fire as part of a land swindle, and it got out of hand.
Second Plot-line
Johnny Woods (Husband of Janet, father of Taylor--a physically abusive husband)
Janet and Taylor scheme to frame Kelly for the murder of Woods. Taylor, although only fourteen is the 'trigger person'. She was being sexually abused by Johnny.

'Chicago Historical Society' Randolph is head of Society. Distant relative of his, Josiah, saved Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation. Will sell to Aryan Brotherhood for them to burn online.
Rachel Swenson Judge and girlfriend of Kelly
Wilson-name of current mayor. Relative might have been involved in Fire. He is running for re-election, and this would damn him at the polls.

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