Join us in celebrating the release of The Detroit Electric Scheme, the debut mystery from Kalamazoo author D.E. Johnson. The book is a fast-paced, detail-filled ride through early-1900s Detroit, involving murder, blackmail, organized crime, the development of a wonderful friendship, and the inside story on early electric automobiles. Populated with fascinating characters, both real and fictional, from a then-flourishing Detroit, the book brings The Dodge brothers and Edsel Ford to life as they interact with denizens of the sordid underbelly of the Motor City, such as Vito Adamo, Detroit’s first Mob boss, and Big Boy, the bouncer at a saloon so notorious the newspapers called it “The Bucket of Blood.” This expertly plotted debut delivers with great research, wonderfully flawed yet likable characters, and a shattering climax.