Life was finally looking good for Harm Queen when New Year's Day 1901 dawned over Minneapolis. His old crony and "Doc and " Ames had just been elected mayor. Queen's promotion to chief of detectives - and a chance to line his pockets - was in the bag. Then, a gruesome crime at a Hell's Half Acre brothel brings Queen's ambitions to a screeching halt. The mayor's brother and Queen's new boss, Colonel Fred Ames, seems hell-bent on thwarting his investigation. To make matters even more difficult, Queen's courtship of Karoline, an upright young Norwegian woman, is imperiled by the appearance of a seductive prostitute with her own game to play. As Queen digs deeper among the gangsters, gaslights and political machinations of turn-of-the-century Minneapolis, he finds himself on the trail of a sinister hobo with apocalyptic ambitions. In The Big Mitt, Erik Rivenes shines a colorful light on a treacherous and corrupt chapter from a great city's forgotten past.