Silky A Detective Story Author:Leo Calvin Rosten Mr. Rosten didn't write The Joys of Yiddish, you should excuse the expression, for nothing -- so if he's going to write a detective story, it's going to be "a whodunit with more cockamamy surprises than hit the shlemiel on his wedding night who didn't know his doll was a snakecharmer ... " — Well, maybe not that man... more »y surprises, but narrator Silky Pincus, private eye, does get mighty involved once blonde, gentile heiress Kimberley Marsh hires him to figure out who's following her. It all has to do with Kimberley's complicated will and her bisexual brother and his gambling debts in Trinidad and her greedy stepfather and cocaine smuggling and Chinatown ...« less