Sydney Lockhart, a tenacious reporter, swaps ink for intrigue when a hotel stay turns lethal. Now a suspect and a sleuth, she dives into a perilous world of crime to solve the Hot Springs mystery. In the misty mountains of 1952 Arkansas, reporter Sydney Lockhart trades her pen for peril, unraveling a murder that entangles her in a lethal dance with gangsters, gamblers, and her own survival. When reporter Sydney Lockhart checks into the historic Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas all she has in mind is a warm bath. Before she can unpack, she discovers the brutally murdered body of the hotel’s bookkeeper. What began as a simple travel-writing assignment is now a serious murder investigation. The worst news is that Sydney is a suspect! And the investigator is one of the most handsome men she’s ever met. It’s hard not to blush when their eyes meet. Of course he thinks she’s guilty. Determined to clear her name and prove herself a top-notch reporter deserving more than just travel assignments, Sydney becomes embroiled in the underworld. Rubbing elbows with gangsters and gamblers in her fight for the truth, she soon faces a more urgent battle—saving her own life. Can Sydney solve the crime to save her skin? Find out in the first book in the Sydney Lockhart Mystery series, Murder at the Arlington. "What is it like reading a Sydney Lockhart Mystery? Picture, if you will, Carl Hiaasen writing a classic film noir featuring the zany; red-haired reporter Sydney Lockhart who somehow gets herself into more tight situations than Lucille Ball did in a whole season of I Love Lucy." -Bruce Rolfe, author of the Chip Hale Handyman Mysteries "With the tenacity of a terrier and her hilarious antics to solve murders, Sydney Lockhart will whisk you away on a vintage sleuthing ride. The combination of a smidge of romance, a dash of curiosity, and a whole lot of snooping makes this historic series funny and original. Never a dull moment with rollicking scenes that will entice you until the very end, The Sydney Lockhart Series is witty, engaging, and a perfect cozy mystery read." -Minette Lauren, author of The Hot Magnolia Series. "Sydney Lockhart is one of the feistiest, funniest P.I.'s in Texas-or anywhere else! '50s pop culture and a crowd of quirky characters make Kaska's latest mystery a killer read." -Sheila Webster Boneham, author of Catwalk and the other Animals in Focus Mysteries Kathleen Kaska is the author of the award-winning mystery series: the Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series set in the 1950s and the Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mystery Series. Her first two Lockhart mysteries; Murder at the Arlington and Murder at the Luther; were selected as bonus books for the Pulpwood Queen Book Group; the country's largest book group. She also writes mystery trivia. The Sherlock Holmes Quiz Book was published by Rowman & Littlefield. Her Holmes short story; "The Adventure at Old Basingstoke;" appears in Sherlock Holmes of Baking Street; a Belanger Books anthology. She is the founder of The Dogs in the Nighttime; the Sherlock Holmes Society of Anacortes; Washington; a scion of The Baker Street Irregulars.