Set in an alternate history version of Post WWII America, the city is overrun with PIXIE DUST JUNKIES and the PIXIE WHORES selling them a good time. Murder, burglary and wicked step mothering are rampant. Some fairytale creatures live among humans with great success. Others not so great.
DETECTIVE GUMDROP is a has-been P.I. who mostly gets paid in favors, but after the death of his wife, he let his reputation as the Savior of Clurritown lose its shine, and the favors are drying up. Now he mostly scrapes by on lead pipe retribution on street criminals, which are abundant in Clurritown. We first meet Gumdrop while he’s retrieving a woman’s purse from a PIXIE DUSTER. Don’t confuse it for nobility. He wants a reward.
Gumdrop is a CLURICHAUN, the lesser known cousins of leprechauns, who’s reputation ain’t as grand. They are the criminal class, the pushers and the junkies. Also called Buttery Spirits, they were known for being drunks who haunt wine cellars (butteries) and stealing people’s sheep to ride. They’ve long since moved on from wine and whiskey as their drug of choice. They used to be able to appear and disappear but no one really believes that old tale anymore.
Gumdrop gets a big break when he’s hired to look into the murder of Sleeping Beauty’s husband, the man who rescued her from her cursed sleep. Prince Troylus Charming was loved, maybe the only royal who was, so why was he brained with a humanitarian award and run through with a sword from the family crest. The cops are happy to pin the murder on the 1st random pixie duster they find in an alley. Gumdrop is happy to collect $25 a day plus expenses. But as the case drags on he gets more invested in the truth.
And that’s something no one in the city is interested in.
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