William J. Palmer Knihy

The gambling worlds of L.A. and Las Vegas converge in this third "Sherlock Jones" novel. Sherlock and his WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golfers Association) "Disreputables" head to Las Vegas to search for the murderer of the primary investor in a major Santa Monica beachfront Casino/Resort Project. That investor's murder, stabbed outside a Domination parlor in Chinatown, triggers the most complex of Sherlock's cases yet. Sasha, who saved Sherlock's life in "Cars. Stars. Murder." Is now his business partner in "Archer Investigations" and plays a central role in this novel as well.

It's the Pandemic, the film industry is on unwelcome hiatus, and Hollywood's brightest star, Mandy Troy, is receiving death threats and compromising photos out of her past. Sherlock's former Marine Corps Sergeant is Mandy's bodyguard and lover. Suspecting blackmail is imminent, he brings Sherlock Jones and the WDGA "Disreputables" (Wednesday Drunken Golfer's Association) on to the case. But one of Sherlock's prime suspects, the Producer of the porno films that Mandy made when she was a struggling actress, turns up murdered. Now Mandy and the Sergeant are a new set of prime suspects. This second of the Sherlock Jones novels drags the reader down into the dark and dirty depths of the move world of plague-stricken Los Angeles in 2021.

"Bravo, William Palmer, on a superb performance, bring back Dickens and Collins for an encore." ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SERIES DEBUT The ghastly double murder of a society doctor's beautiful wife and her maid reuintes celebrated novelist Charles Dickens, his protege Wilkie Collins, and formidable Inspector Field of the Metropolitan Protectives in another brilliant quest for justice. They manage to defend old friend ex-burglar Tally Ho Thompson who's arrested at the scene, but then the case takes the men from the pestilential cells of Newgate to the city's steamiest dives. Gamblers, thieves, swells, whores, and Collins's fiery lover, Irish Meg, all join the chase of a killer who is the stuff of nightmares....