All That Money

By Steven Key Meyers

Inspired by real events, an impatient Depression-era heiress hurries her inheritance along! Celebrity crimes often breed rumors that the victim was complicit. In the Lucie Spode White kidnapping case, the rumors are true. Falls City's sexy Depression belle is a high-living heiress whose stingy husband expects her to get by on her pin money. She's only 25 and won't come into her inheritance until she's 30. How can she possibly make it? Generous—if ruthless—with her favors, when she can't raise the cash for a room at a hot-pillow motel, Lucie enlists her handsome young lover, Harry Thrall,
in a scheme to anticipate part of her inheritance. Just a prank. Can't be a crime if she's in on it, right?

Though pants-on-fire Harry worries that one of them (and he knows who) will end up on Death Row while the other lives it up on Easy Street, he enters into the spirit of the thing. After all, if he's ever going to get to Hollywood, Harry needs money, too.

So off they go, and in come reality and the F.B.I. Lucie finds herself trapped in a closet with a gash in her head, while G-Men dog Harry across the country.

Inspired by the sensational 1934 kidnapping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, "All That Money" is a fast-moving reverse mystery that takes a rollicking ride with Lucie, Harry, her hapless husband, great relations—and square-jawed Special Agent Joe Albright, sniffing out the trail!

"The kind of novel Chandler or Hamett might write if they were basing their work on true crime today!" —M. Lee Alexander

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven Key Meyers
• Release date: Nov 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301345762

Steven Key Meyers

Steven Key Meyers was born on a farm in western Colorado and studied English Lit at CCNY and Columbia. He has self-published numerous novels, including Good People ("a crackling good read"-Toronto Post City Magazines); Queer's Progress; My Mad Russian: Three Tales ("dense, exciting novellas about love and greed"-Kirkus Reviews); Springtime in Siena; The Wedding on Big Bone Hill; All That Money ("the kind of novel Chandler or Hammet might write today"-M. Lee Alexander); Another's Fool ("confident and stylish"-Kirkus); The Last Posse and Junkie, Indiana ("skillfully captures the grim depths"-Kirkus), books that chronicle a great nation's precipitous decline. He is also the author of a memoir of being a teenaged underbutler, I Remember Caramoor: A Memoir and of a biographical study of a once-famous American painter, The Man in the Balloon: Harvey Joiner's Wondrous 1877, and most recently of a book of plays, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and Adaptations.