Stanley Hastings, the world's most unlikely private eye, a struggling actor/writer trying to support his wife and kid in New York City, who chases ambulances for a negligence lawyer and carries a camera instead of a gun and photographs accident victims and the cracks in the sidewalk that tripped them, tackles his first real case, tracking down the murderers of a client he could not save because he wasn't a real detective.
1988 Edgar Award Best First Mystery Nominee
1988 Shamus Award Best First Mystery Nominee
"Highly entertaining ... this is zesty, shrewdly paced caper-comedyóreminiscent of the best of (among others) Lawrence Block and Joe Gores."
-Kirkus Reviews
"As suspenseful as it is hilarious!"
- Rose DeWolf, Philadelphia Daily News
"A gritty, entertaining mystery!"
-Publishers Weekly
"A terrific page-turner of classic detection."
-Drood Review
