Timeline of A Hot Lead

The following is a timeline of events that take place in or are referenced in A Hot Lead.

Timeline

Before 1933

1924

• James Houston becomes Chief of the Detective's Guild.
• Hoss begins working with Johnny B. Oy, at the newly acquired Salami's Saloon.
• Around this time, Tom Cluz and Informant #3 begin working at a Private Investigator's office in Round Lake.

1926

• Hoss joins the Detective's Guild.

1927

• Chief ahouston learns of the exploita of P.I. Cluz, and begins to watch the young detective's actions.

1928

• Tom Cluz is recruited by the Detective's Guild.
• Tom Cluz solves the "Glottal Stop Case".

1932

• Tom Cluz solves the "Glass Box Case".
• Henderson joins the Detective's Guild.
• Michaels joins the Detective's Guild.

1933 to 1941

1933

• Tom Cluz solves the "Kroeger Club Killings Case".
• Cluz and Matthews begin working on the "Kid Kidnapping Case".
• Cluz and Matthews confront a suspect who they believe is Kid Kidnapper, and a shootout ensues. In the resulting fire, Matthews is killed, prompting Cluz to leave the Guild.
• Langley joins the Detective's Guild. Henderson becomes the Senior Assistant to the Chief.

1935

• Tom Cluz moves to Daytona Beach.
• Devin Carter joins the Daytona Beach Detective's Guild.

1937

• Devin Carter has an affair with The Dame From Daytona.
• Mel and Sally leave Johnny's company.

1941

• Walter Louis joins the Detective's Guild as part of the Guild's Intern Program.

1942

April

1. Alan Clark, a former member of Johnny's organization, is murdered in Round Hill by the Fatal Femmes. The case is assigned to Detective Roy.
2. A man known only as "Josh" is murdered in the Downtown District.
3. Harold Sellers and Andrew Davies, two men with connections to Johnny B. Oy are murdered by the Femmes. Detective Johnson takes on Sellers' Case.
4. George McNeil and Ryder Herrington are murdered by the Femmes. Chief Houston makes his first public statement about the case, formally dubbing it the "Case of the Fatal Femmes".
5. Conrad Daniels, a close employee of Johnny's, is murdered in Lakeview. Detective Roy is found dead in a Round Hill appartment.
7. Matthew Marcas is murdered, the first victim of only two to bear no connection to Johnny.
8. Parker Doyle is brutally murdered in Palmdale by the Femmes. The case is assigned to Detective Johnson.
9. Luciano Roscco, a well known gambler and a customer of Johnny's, is found murdered in his penthous in the Downtown District.
10. A man simply known as "Trevor" is murdered by the Femmes. Detective Johnson is declared missing. Duncan Prescott is found dead.
12. The fourteenth murder, a drug dealer and street criminal with a connection to Johnny called Paulie Guano, is murdered on 21st and 22nd Street. Chief Houston makes the decision to call the Daytona Beach Guild and request assistance. He also plans to find and recruit Tom Cruz.
13. Cruz is recruited by Chief Houston to return to the Guild to help find the Femmes. Devin Carter arrives from Daytona Beach. Cluz contacts Informant #3. Meanwhile, street artist and petty criminal (and former Johnny employee) Blake "Grease Man" Weese is found murdered by gunshot in Prince, the first non-Guild victim to be killed via a method other than Blunt Traumatic Force.
14. Cluz and Carter speak with Informant #3. They investigate Johnny B. Oy, and discover the lipstick. At sunset, they approach and apprehend Johnny B. Oy in his Palmdale home. That night, they take Johnny in for processing.
15. Just past midnight, Devin Carter requests to speak to Johnny. Henderson leads Cluz and Carter down to Johnny's cell, but cannot find Detective Michaels. He goes off to look for him. The two discover Johnny's body dumped at the bottom of a stairwell, stabbed to death and with a note reading "KEEP LOOKING". Devin Carter is then shot once in the chest, and Cluz is beaten unconscious and taken captive by the Fatal Femmes. Henderson discovers the bodies of Johnny and Carter, and immediately tells Chief Houston. Detective Langley finds the body of Detective Michaels in a storage closet in the basement. Chief Houston reluctantly reassigns the case to Walter Louis.
16 through 21. Over the course of the week, five more people are murdered: Chrisopher Muir (a former Johnny employee), Vladimir Ratznikov (a retired criminal kingpin, and an ally of Johnny's), Detective Anderson, "Marcus W." (a Johnny recruit), and "Wendell" (killed for unknown reasons, no known connection to Johnny). Walter Louis discovers Detective Johnson's note, before Johnson is discovered dead in Eastborough.
22. Walter beings the note in to the Chief and Henderson. Louis leaves the Guild that day, and District Attorney Tommy Lau warns Houston that the Guild is making no progress, and is wasting city resources. The Guild is set to be evicted the following week, and all Femme operations will be handled by the city. Walter discovers the female voice on Johnny's recorder.
23. After Henderson essentially tells Louis to give up, Louis goes to a bar in Bridgeport. Meanwhile, Informant #2 is murdered by the Femmes in Oldport. The Femmes also murder the Bartender at Salami's Saloon. Walter Louis discovers a vial of lipstick at the murder scene, and goes to speak with Hoss. Hoss tells Louis to go to a place in Oldport, where he finds Cluz and the Femmes. In the following shootout, Cluz is shot and killed, and Louis violently shoots three women. Henderson, Hoss, and Peterson arrive on scene to help. The Femmes are apprehended.
29. Walter Louis is granted the Greenridge medal of honor, and is made an official Detective of the Guild by Chief Houston.

See Also

• List of Characters in A Hot Lead