The Case of the One-Penny Orange

Masao Masuto, a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force, investigates a ransacked house from which nothing is missing and the murder of a noted stamp dealer, and searches for an 1847 postage stamp from Mauritius.

MASAO MASUTO BREEDS ROSE, PRACTICE ZEN—AND SOLVES PERFECT CRIMES PERFECTLY…

All in high-gloss Beverly Hills. Where the lavish home of a famed actress has just been ransacked. Where a rare stamps dealer and his assistant have just been murdered. And where the puzzle is growing tougher and tougher as each new piece turns up…

Like the one-penny orange—a prize stamp worth half-a-million. Assassins on motorcycles. A Nazi connection. And a shapely female suspect with a fatal allure for six-foot Masuto, Hollywood's homicide ace…