Goodreads asked Neil Low:

What are you currently working on?

Neil Low My current W.I.P. is another noir detective novel, based on a real life mass murder that occurred in the Bremerton area during the Depression, right at the end of Prohibition. Bremerton didn't have the resources or skill set to investigate it, so they called on the services of the famous Luke May, a real-life Sherlock Holmes, who had been hired by Seattle Police to create its crime lab. While May was on the ferry over to Bremerton, a deputy who was supposed to protect the crime scene charged as many as 170 locals a quarter a piece to walk through the crime scene. Somebody stole the hosiery off one of the dead victims. Luke May still did a fine job on the investigation and inspired this story...

flag