Don Flynn Knihy

An out-of-work actor in New York is not anything worth writing about. But a dead one, riding on a Hudson River ferryboat, has reporter Ed Fitz Fitzgerald's curiosity aroused. And even though Fitz's editor has other plans for him, Fitz is determined to cover a story bigger than Broadway.

When the son of bar owner Timmy Kelly is murdered, reporter Ed Fitzgerald is asked to investigate and finds himself at odds with his editor and in trouble with a group of New York gangsters

Edward Fitzgerald begins to suspect that the accidental death of the reporter he replaced was really murder, when he discovers an envelope with five hundred dollars in the victim's desk