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From Dragon Moon
Press
Summary"Chicago, 1929. There are a thousand stories in the naked
city; and when you're a dwarf at four-foot-one, they all
look that much taller."
It is The Era of Prohibition, where crime runs rampant in
the streets and a city divided into territories serves as
the ultimate prize. Somewhere in this Underworld of
Chicago, an enchanted weapon holds the key to ending The
Gangland Wars. In the wake of The St. Valentine's Day
Massacre, only one is man enough to stand up against Al
Capone...
...a four-foot-one dwarf named Billibub Baddings.
"Billi," as his friends come to know him, is a working
stiff dwarf in the all too-human sized world of Chicago.
Seems that a brood of orcs and a renegade warlock had
opened a Portal of Oblivion in his homeworld and was
planning to submerge his nine lands of Acryonis into an Age
of Darkness. Billi had managed to throw a monkey wrench
into those plans...but not before getting himself caught in
the pull of that portal. When he came to, he found himself
in the heart of The Windy City during The Roaring
Twenties.
After dealing with trolls, goblins, and rock dragons, Al
Capone and Bugs Moran are about as intimidating as choir
boys.
Billi sets himself up as a tough-talking, waist-high,
straight-dealing detective, and business was looking bleak,
until a dark-eyed beauty crossed his threshold with the
case that involved the mob, the upper-crust of Chicago
society, and Billi's past.
Get ready for The Lord of the Rings written by Mickey
Spillane! Poking fun at the hard-boiled detective novel,
Fantasy mainstays, and even the legend of Chicago's 1920
underworld!
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