Robb Moreira portrays police detective Al Sullivan, who tells listeners about a prominent industrialist who is murdered in San Francisco’s posh Claremont Hotel in 1944. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss how the Claremont Hotel is essentially a character in this story that features layers of San Francisco history with the intersection of its diverse communities. Moreira’s Sullivan is competent, persistent, yet caring, animating characters from low-life thugs, the upper-class Bainbridge women, and even Madame Chaing Kai-shek. Tim Campbell and Suzanne Toren ably narrate court deposition sequences.

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