"Robert Westlands date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wifes grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze soaked detective whos as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicagos most brutal criminal element. Cranes got just six days to suss out the real killer he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a lime squeezer,a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver but in 1930s Chicago, everyones got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before its too late."--
