The Moving Finger

BENNY'S BLUES
You're Benny Freedman, and you have a few little problems. You have the gruesome death of your beautiful young wife to handle. You have her six-million-dollar legacy in your hands to spend. And now you have to crack a case involving a murdered used-car mogul with a missing finger, a gorgeous widow who believes that sex is the best medicine for mourning, and a religious cult that worships money and makes a sacrament of slaughter....

BENNY FREEDMAN
Half-Jewish, half-Irish, Benny Freedman is not everyman's image of a cop: A poetry-reading martial-arts disciple with a great appreciation for beautiful language and beautiful women, Benny has a special gift for finding and fighting trouble in California's fast lane. It's not easy, but being hard is another one of those things Benny does very well....