When a man for no apparent reason to do so hires Chelsea private eye Dan Fortune to find the killer of a cocktail waitress, Fortune is as curious about his employer as about the victim. Then the waitress turns out to be the scion of an aristocratic old Dutch family and the going gets dangerous fo...
One-armed detective Dan Fortune takes on New York's underworld, with nothing to gain....except his life.".........."An excellent novel...skillfully plotted with finely honed suspense.
A pawnbroker dies, and Fortune investigates his brother, a French soldier It’s summer in New York, and the city is boiling. Unable to stand the heat, Dan Fortune’s girlfriend Marty asks him to pawn her diamond ring in order to buy them a few weeks by the seashore. Fortune does as told, but picks ...
16. WHEN JOANNE WENT to the jail, a Cook County clerk told her that Norman had already been released, and then wouldn’t tell her anything more. Joanne checked her voicemail immediately. There was no message. In the echoing vault of the courthouse around her were prosecutors, defenders and witness...
Only one showed light. The tall woman led me toward the lighted one. She wore boots, a loose one-piece wool dress, and nothing else against the ten-degree cold but an enormous red-and-white-striped scarf. She strode out like one of those old fanatics leading a crusade. Inside, the main room of th...
Al Shepard, the chief of the astronaut office, assigned each one of us a specific area of responsibility, in which we were to train ourselves to become experts. Buzz Aldrin was assigned mission planning, which meant he attended all the meetings on that subject. In 1964, we were trying to figure o...