Dewey Webb

A gripping historical mystery set in the shadows of post-World War II America.

Denver, 1949. The war may be over, but its ghosts refuse to rest, haunting the hearts and minds of those it touched. Private investigator Dewey Webb knows this all too well—his own wartime scars are buried deep beneath a stoic demeanor, some hidden even from himself.

Dewey is halfway through his lunch at a quiet diner when Gordon Sandalwood appears, hovering uncertainly near his table. Gordon’s hesitation is plain—this is not a man used to asking for help. But desperation wins out, and soon he’s spilling his worries about his wife Edith’s secretive behavior. There’s something she’s not telling him, something that doesn’t add up.

Dewey reluctantly agrees to help, expecting another routine domestic case. But what begins as a mundane job takes a dark turn when Edith meets a man in secret—and everything changes. As he digs deeper, Dewey unearths a tangle of secrets stretching back to the war, secrets that threaten not just Gordon’s marriage but lives. Each clue pulls Dewey further into a web of deceit, danger, and lies, where the stakes are more than personal—they’re deadly.

A throwback to the classic hard-boiled detectives, like Philip Marlowe & Sam Spade.

It’s 1949, and Denver private investigator Dewey Webb isn’t thinking about murder, he’s pondering the stack of bills he can’t pay. Then he runs into an old army acquaintance, Roy Jefferson, who is well-dressed, flashing cash, and wanting Dewey’s help. Dewey has his suspicions, however, Roy pays him substantially just to meet him later and hear his problem. Dewey agrees, but before they can talk, Roy dies, an apparent suicide. But is that the case?

Since Dewey has taken Roy’s money, he feels honor-bound to look into Roy’s death. What Dewey discovers leads him to believe someone from Roy’s sordid past may have murdered him. And that same someone may now be after Dewey as well. As Dewey works to find a possible killer, he’s forced to question many things, including his own sense of honor.

It’s the end of 1949, and Denver private investigator Dewey Webb is asked to do what seems like a simple thing: find Jasper Caffrey’s daughter, Nora, who hasn’t been seen or heard from in days. Nora is wild, and trouble seems to find her. Was she the victim of foul play, or has she run away from home?

As Dewey hunts for Nora, from the richest sections of the city to the jazz clubs in the Five Points neighborhood, he uncovers secrets about the Caffreys that may explain Nora’s disappearance, and he encounters a cast of characters who all want him dead. Can he dodge danger and find Nora before either one of them comes to a bad end?