Sergeant Kiffer said, staring at the dead body in the alley behind the boarding house. Fritz didn’t reply, spurring Clarence to ride up the stairs of a nearby stoop to get a better look at the corpse. The man certainly fit the description Nicholas and Alexa had given him of the drunk who’d tipped...
Though Tobias had called the meeting of the Council of Twelve, everyone knew that Kieft was behind it. As First Adviser, Kieft technically had no authority over the council, though if anyone really believed that, Whitman had a bridge to sell them. Kieft didn’t need a vote to push the council in w...