No Game for a Dame

✍ Scribed by Myers, M Ruth

• Book ID: 108413621
• Publisher: Tuesday House
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 154 KB
• Series: Maggie Sullivan 2
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A .38, a nip of gin and sensational legs get Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan out of most scrapes until a stranger threatens to bust her nose, shes 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 and information from the madam herself.

A gunman puts a bullet through Maggies hat. Her shutterbug pal on the evening paper warns her off. A new cop whose presence unsettles her thinks shes 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.

If you like Robert B. Parker's hard boiled Spencer series and strong women sleuths, don't miss this one-of-a-kind detective from a time in United States history when dames wore hats -- but seldom a Smith & Wesson.

About the Author

M. Ruth Myers is a former reporter and feature writer for daily papers including The Journal Herald in Dayton. Most of her nine previous novels have been published in foreign translations as well as in English. Ruth's time at the typewriter allows her husband to climb on the roof with untied shoelaces and the cat to sprawl on the kitchen table without reprimand.