Too Soon Dead - Alexander Brass, Bk 1 Author:Michael Kurland Nefarious doings among movers and shakers in Depression-era New York City animate a lively chase for a story -- and a murderer -- for newspaper nightclub columnist Alexander Brass. It all begins when a furtive tipster promises an explosive story and gives Brass an envelope filled with photographs of several powerful people caught in compromising... more » sexual positions. Intrigued, Brass sends a newspaper stringer to follow the mystery man. When the stringer is murdered, Brass and his team resolve to find the killer, running the gauntlet of blackmailing Nazis, accommodating nymphomaniacs and US senators on the way.« less