After becoming stranded in Downtown LA, an unaccomplished crime writer witnesses a murder and becomes embroiled in Skid Row culture as she tries to solve the case in the shadow of her father's legacy.

SYNOPSIS:

Edgar Allan is a mess. An alcoholic crime writer whose ex-girlfriend shows up for quickies after Edgar caught her cheating and threw her out. Her driver’s license has been revoked, and lately she’s been riding around in the back of Ubers, endlessly adding rides while she drunk writes about family annihilators without getting too close. Not too close, like her crime writer father, Edgar Allan Sr., got to the scene. But he was “the shit,” according to her publisher and his ex-lover, Caroline. He was “better than Anne Rule,” even. Too bad he fell, jumped, or was pushed out of the 20th-story hotel window in downtown Los Angeles after witnessing the notorious Skid Row Slayings in the 90s. But Edgar Allan’s father was never there for her anyway, only giving her his name, which her grandfather had given to him because he was such a Poe fanatic. Caroline was right, though; she hadn’t really done anything with the name. But when she gets into a whiskey-addled fight with a driver and is dumped out on Skid Row, she witnesses a woman being brutally stabbed to death in a dark alley, forcing her to pick up where her father left off in solving one of the biggest crime mysteries in LA history while she continues to grapple with the past.