The Brass Cupcake Author:John D. MacDonald Take a hard boiled ex-cop named Cliff Bartells.
Take a beautiful girl with the unlikely name of Melody Chance.
Add the death of one of Elizabeth Stegman of Boston, Massachusetts.
Plus her missing jewels, insured for $750,000.00.
Add them all up and what have you got?
Murder for profit, of course.
Cold blooded, premeditated murder...
Set in the 1950's in Florida, an ex-cop - now insurance recovery man, takes on a case that could be his last. To solve the case he has to battle small town politics, organized crime, and his own heart.