This Dame for Hire

New York, 1943. Almost anything in pants has gone to serve Uncle Sam in the war—including Woody Mason, the head of a Manhattan detective agency. Left to run the show is his secretary, Faye Quick, who signed on as a steno, not a shamus. But Faye's got moxie—which she'll need when she stumbles over a dead girl in the street and takes on her first murder case.

The victim wasn't any ordinary girl: Claudette West was the daughter of a prominent Park Avenue family. Claudette's father is convinced that greed was the motive, that Claudette's working-class boyfriend killed the girl because she threw him off the gravy train. Faye, however, isn't so sure—and she soon uncovers shocking surprises in an investigation with more turns and dips than the Coney Island Cyclone.