The Final Bullet: A Kelley McCarthy Story (The Scott Carson Saga)

By Robert Crawford

It's June, 1920. The Jazz Age and Wall Street's boom are just getting into full swing. The Great War and the Spanish Flu pandemic are over and America is looking forward to good times. But renowned Whist and Bridge expert and wealthy Wall Street investor Joseph Elwell won't live long enough to see those times because someone put a bullet in Elwell's head. Most confounding for the NYPD, Elwell was murdered in a locked room with no means for the killer to escape. Elwell was a notorious womanizer and the question isn't who wanted Elwell dead but who didn't? Enter New York Times crime reporter Kelley McCarthy (The Doll Maker, Hollywoodland). Kelley is desperate to wind up her career in New York and move to Los Angeles to marry her sweetheart, Scott Carson (Tatterdemalion), with her sights set on a new career with the LA Times. But when she has one foot out the door, her managing editor tells her to go to the scene of the murder and to get some answers Before the shocking and heartbreaking conclusion that answers the age-old mystery of who killed Elwell and managed to escape, Kelley will risk her entire future when someone on the NYPD threatens her very life to keep the truth from coming out. Will Kelley discover the truth that's been hidden for over a century or will she write her final article for any paper?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F67BKX5H
• ISBN13: 9798281201223
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 268 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.0"