β Scribed by M. Ruth Myers
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A .38, a nip of gin and sensational legs get Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan out of most scrapes β until a stranger threatens to bust her nose, sheβs hauled in on suspicion of his murder and she finds herself in the cross-hairs of a crime boss with connections at City Hall.
Moving through streets where people line up at soup kitchens, Maggie draws information from sources others overlook: The waitress at the dime store lunch counter where she has breakfast; a ragged newsboy; the other career girls at her rooming house.
Her digging gets her chloroformed and left in a ditch behind the wheel of her DeSoto. She makes her way to an upscale bordello and gets tea β and information β from the madam herself.
A gunman puts a bullet through Maggieβs hat. Her shutterbug pal on the evening paper warns her off. A new cop whose presence unsettles her thinks sheβs crooked. Before she finds all the answers she needs, she faces a half-crazed man with a gun, and a far more lethal point-blank killer.
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