Michael Sinclair’s latest historical mystery, “Murder in Cucumber Alley,” was recently published.
It is February 1927, and Schenectady, New York, proud home of General Electric, is booming with prosperity. Rodney Longworth, handsome and debonair assistant manager at the elegant Hotel Van Curler, experiences firsthand the explosion of violence when two women are brutally murdered in Cucumber Alley, not far from the home he shares with his parents in the historic stockade district. Amidst a backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, jazz music, beguiling scientists and the newfound expedient of television, “Murder in Cucumber Alley” continues to a shocking denouement when Sloane Sheppard unmasks the culprit behind the horrendous murders in Cucumber Alley.
Michael Sinclair’s previous novels in the 1920s series are “An Unfortunate Coincidence” and “The Consequences of Murder.” His novels are available online and in bookstores.