AVAILABLE NOW Death in a Time of Spanish Flu

Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly
 

Set in 1918 Chicago, McNamara’s excellent ninth Emily Cabot mystery (after 2020’s Death on the Home Front) finds Emily’s physician husband, Stephen, serving on the front lines of the Spanish Influenza epidemic. Meanwhile, Emily gets drawn into a murder investigation involving Flora Murphy, a notorious gambling king’s second wife, who’s accused of shooting her younger lover. When Emily discovers that two of her children—Jack, a physician who served in France, and Lizzie, an aspiring sculptor—were friends of the victim, Emily must follow them into the notorious Bohemian circle of the Dil Pickle Club, where revolutionaries, mobsters, and intellectuals such as Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Sherwood Anderson once congregated to read poetry and discuss politics. The shooting death of a man at the club raises the stakes. The real-life characters mingle seamlessly with the fictional ones to capture the myriad contradictions of Chicago, from the dirty politicians and gangsters who run the city to the idealists, intellectuals, and revolutionaries who are committed to social change. This timely novel informs as much as it entertains. (Oct.)

 
 

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

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.