The Blue Ticket Button: A Historical Cozy Mystery of Railway Secrets and Murder

One dead clerk. One convenient suspect. One blue button sewn into a lie.Summer in Savannah is trying Cora Bell Fontaine's patience. The sixty-three-year-old dressmaker wants a fan, a glass of cold tea, and a day without someone suggesting she move to Charleston.Instead, she gets a murder.When a railway claims clerk is found dead behind the segregated waiting room, the authorities waste little time blaming a Black Pullman porter. There was a quarrel. There is a witness. And a blue button on the dead man's jacket appears to make the case perfectly clear.But Cora knows when something has been stitched to fit.The thread tells one story. The timetable tells another. Neither agrees with the official account.With Ruthanna Pike-a Pullman porter's widow whose memory for schedules, luggage, and old aliases is sharper than most people's eyesight-Cora begins examining the details everyone else is willing to overlook.Joined by Naomi and Delphine, they follow a trail of railway tickets, missing bonds, and traces of Isaiah's past toward a theft rooted in the waterfront fraud of 1898. What looks like a hurried accusation conceals a much older deception, and an innocent man is being made to answer for it.To clear him, Cora must persuade a reluctant young official to put uncomfortable facts on the record. Somewhere between a false witness and a carefully placed stitch lies the truth-and a killer counting on nobody looking closely enough.Cora has never needed much thread to undo someone's handiwork.Return to 1926 Savannah for The Blue Ticket Button, a warm, wry historical cozy mystery featuring an observant senior sleuth, resourceful women, railway intrigue, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.A Cora Bell Fontaine Mystery with one central murder fully solved by the final chapter, no graphic violence, and no explicit content.