
Elder Darrow buys The Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston, to turn it into a jazz hotspot. Along with his homicide-cop friend Dan Burton, Elder finds himself caught in a web of greed and corruption, threatening more than his sobriety.

An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. In this amateur sleuth mystery, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston, hoping to turn it into a jazz nightspot. Though he knows that...