β Scribed by James M. Fox
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The Iron Virgin (1952) , like the other books in the long-running series, features a husband and wife private eye team, though in his first-person narrative, Johnny refers to Suzy as βthe little woman,β and a Great Dane, Khan. The dog, though, doesnβt do much detecting in this novel.
The series is set in early Hollywood and John and Suzy are often employed by the movie stars or, at least, hobnob with them. Here, though, the subject is a missing redheaded dental assistant, often propositioned by clients posing as movie moguls. On a hunch, our detecting and bantering couple start investigating why Hendrix, our dental assistant, who has a number of boyfriends, some who might feel jilted, has disappeared. The Marshalls decide at one point that a Mexican oligarch has taken her to Las Vegas and then deep into Mexico to pose her in X-rated movies. As it turns out, the solution to the mystery is in front of the Marshalls the whole time.
While certainly not hardboiled, this novel offers a pleasant mystery to unravel.
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