Seattle, 1907. "The wickedest city in America." - McClure's Magazine. "Honey Jack" Gallagher, the brass-knuckled enforcer for a family of corrupt Irish cops, thinks he can get away with murder. And he's done it often enough to know. Adrienne Cody fled her lumber-town upbringing in search of freedom. Which she finds, in gritty form, as an idealistic young visiting nurse. These two wildly different people share just one thing in common: Julie Moran, a glamorous prostitute with friends in too many places. When Adrienne tries to help Julie's secret child, a parade of bodies starts crossing the coroner's slab. And hers might be next. A bruising, hard-boiled tale of romance and murder, Midnight Choir takes you back to the time when the real-life models for Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe walked the mean streets with brass knuckles in place of shining armor.