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 ...
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.
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...