Little Chicago Chronicles Volume I: One More Last Call

Hamilton, Ohio, 1919. 

ONE MORE LAST CALL plunges you into the tense final days of legal drinking, where the most honest men are about to become criminals and the police force is on the verge of fracturing. At the center of the storm is Lyman Williams, a respectable saloon owner who finds a single-day legal loophole to host the "Last Legal Saloon" on May 26th—a grand, defiant farewell that puts him, his friends, and their legitimate businesses on a collision course with the new dry laws.

But the real battle is for the soul of the city, and the lawmen who are supposed to protect it. Inspector Herman Dulle, a good cop trusted by the community, must confront the reality of enforcing a law he despises, while his colleague, Roy Addison, sees only opportunity for new, more lucrative corruption. Meanwhile, returning WWI veteran Joe Jacobs is pushed into the world of auto theft, safe blowing, and bootlegging by sheer necessity, forming a dangerous alliance with the railroad gang boss, Fat Wrassman, and earning a nickname that will haunt him until his death.

This is the story of how Prohibition didn’t end drinking—it only ended legal drinking, pushing sympathetic businessmen like Williams and politician George Renners into the orbit of violent criminals. As the battle lines are drawn, Dulle must decide if he will uphold a broken law or defend the decent people it is about to destroy. The countdown is on, and for everyone in Hamilton, one last call will change everything.