Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword

Three Coins in a Fountain: And now, the conclusion...

Hell, Hell, the Gang's All Here: Billi's breakthrough in this case of The Singing Sword happens over Mick's chicken soup and ham-and-cheese special. His hunch begins at a speakeasy and ends at the docks. Tonight, everything happens.

Not the Same Ol' Song & Dance: A hunch leads Billi back to the speakeasy where he was a friend of Lou's...

Reading Between the Lines: Billi's investigation into The Singing Sword had now caught the attention of his client's high society rival, Eva Rothchild. At a black tie affair, Eva tried to play Billi for a fool in front of Julia Lesinger...but with Julia offering Billi a limous

I'll Live a Lush Life: What started as a simple (yet risky) investigation into the death of a Capone mobster, Billi has uncovered the theft of an artifact from his own realm of Acryonis, a black market operation run by the curator of the Ryerson Museum, and himself under t

Give My Regards to Elliot: After a night that ended with one dead Ryerson curator, a whopper of a hangover, and murder charges dropped thanks to an appearance by Capone's ace attorney, Billi gives Miranda (and himself) a day off. The following day picks up exactly where his ca

Hitting the Books: His morning and afternoon well spent with case leads, Billi decides to return to the Ryerson their photo of The Singing Sword. He finds Dr. Hammil anxious to chat with him again, and those powers of observation and deduction of his a bit too accurate

Any Friend of Lou's... : Billi dives back into Benny's notes and finds two living contacts in the "Singing Sword" network. One is a foot soldier in Capone's ranks, keeping the Sword on the move. The other contact is a hat-and-coat check girl from one of Capone's speakeasies,

My Dinner with Alphonse: Billi is picked up in front of his office by a pair of armed thugs, "invited" to a casual dinner. The dwarf detective finds himself in store for an evening of good food and good wine with Alphonse "Scarface" Capone.

Word Gets Around: When hired by socialite Julia Lesinger to investigate the death of gangster "Pretty Boy" DeMayo, Billibub Baddings knew he was kicking an angry nest of dragon-wasps...but he did not count on being suspect in an informant's murder, crossing paths with

Suits and Saps: Billi's bad day (thanks to the Ryerson Museum) only gets worse as the police pick him up at his office with questions about the death of Benny Riletto.

Driving on the Wrong Side of Memory Lane: Billi's morning with two-bit hood, Benny Riletto, leads him to the Ryerson Museum, one of the most prestegious learning institutions of Chicago. He meets Dr. Samuel Hammil, the museum's curator. At first, Dr. Hamil is refusing to cooperate with the d

My Boy Benny: Billi is still noddling through the previous evening's excitementat Mick's. Why would Bugs Moran's boys dare set foot in Capone's territory so soon after the St. Valentine's Day? Whatever was hitting the streets, it was serious enough to grab a rival

Getting on My Bad Side: A frustrating day of confusing clues and desk drawers sealed with low level magic does a lot for a dwarf's appetite, and there's no better place to fill an empty stomach than Mick's.

Scene of the Grime: A slow Friday at Baddings Investigations turns into the case of a lifetime for Billibub Baddings, dwarf detective. Hired by Chicago socialite Julia Lesinger, Billi begins his investigation into why Anothony "Pretty Boy" DeMayo was whacked by his

Trouble Is a Princess in High Heels: It is Chicago, 1929, and Billibub Baddings is a four-foot-one dwarf detective in a world of six-foot thugs, creeps, and lowlifes. It's a slow Friday at Baddings Investigations, until one of Chicago's higher society walks into his office. A case is ab