Coming in 2025 Death at the Chicago Trust

Set in 1930 Chicago, the tenth Emily Cabot mystery (after 2022’s Death in a Time of Spanish Flu) finds Emily caught up in the violence of the gangster culture of the city. After the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, Emily finds herself without money. When she witnesses the suicide of a banker followed by the shooting of a man in the streets of Hyde Park, she and her family are drawn into the incredible violence of the Prohibition era city. She witnesses the formation of the "Secret Six" a vigilante organization of businessmen intent on getting rid of the gangs before the World's fair of 1933. Who would come to the city when it has such a reputation for violence? Emily's own world is turned upside down as her family it threatened by the violence.

Welcome to Rudiyat Press!

The Emily Cabot Mysteries will be reissued on the following schedule:

Death at the Fair 1/17/22

Death at Hull House 2/7/22

Death at Pullman 2/14/22

Death at Woods Hole 2/21/22

Death at Chinatown 2/21/22

Death at the Paris Exposition 2/28/22

Death at the Selig Studios 3/7/22

Death on the Homefront 3/14/22
Death in a Time of Spanish Flu 10/20/22

Death on the Homefront

With the United States on the verge of entering World War I, tensions run high in Chicago in the Spring of 1917, and the city simmers with anti-German sentiment mixed with virulent patriotism. Shockingly, amateur sleuth Emily Cabot is present when a young Chicago woman, who is about to make a brilliant society marriage, is murdered. Was her death retaliation for her pacifist activities, or was it linked to her romantic entanglements? Emily has a personal connection to the woman, but she’s torn between her determination to solve the murder and her deep need to protect her newly adult children from the realities of a new world. As the country’s entry into the war unfolds, Emily watches with trepidation as her sons and daughter make questionable choices about their own futures. Violent worker unrest and the tumultuous arena of automobile racing provide an emotionally charged backdrop for this compelling mystery.

Death on the Homefront received a starred review in Publishers Weekly!

Death in a Time of Spanish Flu

In October 1918, the Allies are winning the war in Europe, but the Spanish flu is rampant at home. In Chicago, Emily’s husband is fighting the virus at Cook County Hospital. Their daughter has dropped her social ambitions to study sculpture while their doctor son has returned from France injured in body and spirit. Emily is shocked to learn her children were friends of the victim in a scandalous murder. The wife of a notorious gambling king shot her young lover. When Emily follows them to the Dil Pickle club she enters an avant-garde world of artists and writers biding their time for their lives to return to normal. When a man is found shot there, Emily works with Detective Whitbread prove her children are not involved in the death.

About Rudiyat Press

Rudiyat Press was established to provide reprints of previously published mystery series and new books that continue the series. There is no technical reason not to keep series books available in print and ebook formats. Readers who like a new book often want to go back and read the whole series. Rudiyat Press will ensure they can do that by keeping the whole series available.

The nine books of the Emily Cabot Mysteries by Frances McNamara will be available as print and ebooks. The first eight are reprints of the Allium Press of Chicago editions. New books in the series are created and published by Rudiyat Press.

Other mystery series will be published based on financial and other considerations.

Rudiyat Press is not accepting submissions at this time.

NOTE ON THE NAME: When it was necessary to find a unique name for the press, we chose "Rudiyat" for the Rhodes 19 sailboat once owned by Rudy Wolfson and Frances McNamara which sailed out of Montrose Harbor in Chicago. Since the name was made up, it was unique and uniquely represented good memories of sailing on Lake Michigan while the original Emily Cabot mysteries were being written.