The Brass Rainbow Author:Michael Collins "You swear I was with you twelve noon to two p.m.," a two-bit gambler pleads with Fortune, "and it's a C-note for you." Add a few dead bodies, a gentle group of suspects - including a ruthless con-man, some fast ladies, and an arrogant millionaire - and it boils up into a nasty-tasting mess for Detective Dan Fortune. A not-so-merry chase leads... more » into a Greenwich Village blind alley, where bullets chip the bricks around him....
One-armed Detective Dan Fortune takes on New York's underworld, with nothing to gain ... except his life. "An excellent novel ... skillfully plotted with finely honed suspense." (The New York Times)« less