The name's Case... Hard Case. I take on the toughest, dirtiest cases in English literature. That's why the King of Denmark dropped a dime to tell me something was rotten in the state of Denmark. But before the old guy could cry murder most foul, somebody croaked him and I was up to my peepers in betrayal and revenge. My list of suspects included a long list of people who wanted me dead; a prince who didn't know what the hell he wanted and a skirt named Ophelia who wanted everything... including me.
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It ended like most of my cases... with everybody dead. The king was dead. The queen was dead. The prince was almost dead.
Amateur sleuth and cobbler Fulton Moon (yes, his nickname is Full Moon) encounters beautiful and sinister Lucinda Mathews. Lucy, wife of prominent florist Arthur Mathews, wants to escape an abusive husband and Moon only wants to help. It isn’t that
Following several murders, means, motive, and opportunity all point to out-of-work actresses Bootsie Kittredge and Babs Harrison. Their claims of righteousness and lack of guilt seem fabricated, thanks to a cheerfull announcement made to the patrons