Mystery Readers Book Group

Last Twelve Hours / Erika Robuck

The Coast Guard is losing the Prohibition Rum War, but they have a new, secret weapon to crack smuggler codes, intercept traffic, and destroy the rum trade one skiff at a time.  That secret weapon is a 5' 2" mastermind in heels, Mrs. Elizebeth Smith Friedman, one half of the husband-and-wife pair who invented cryptanalysis.  From the glamorous world of D.C. Intelligence to the sultry shores of the Straits of Florida, the Last Twelve Hours is based on the true story of two women masterminds trying to outwit each other in a dangerous and fascination high stakes game.