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A gritty 1927 Chicago unfolds through the voices of those who keep the city running after dark—a taxi driver, a bartender, a journalist, a train operator, and more—each narrating their own piece of a larger mystery. At the heart of it all is the disappearance of Alderman Baxter Crowe, a politician entangled in bribes, zoning battles, and the silent war between progress and the working class. As each episode reveals new perspectives, motives emerge, alliances shift, and the truth inches closer. Suspicion falls on multiple players, including the very voices telling the story. Hosted on Acast...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is best known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown. In The Club of Queer Trades, narrator 'Cherub' Swinburne and his friends, the eccentric former judge Basil Grant, and Basil's younger brother, private detective Rupert Grant, encounter six curious mysteries, each involving someone who makes a living in an extraordinary and bizarre - in the language of the time a 'queer' - way.