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"Its ability to build strong characters who step out of their familiar roles to tackle unprecedented issues makes for a riveting story that's hard to put down, powered by the attraction of a small-town investigator operating in big-city environments of stage productions and an older female detective who is faced with either retirement or developing more skills to address ongoing mysteries."MIDWEST BOOK REVIEWCharlotte Smart is back, and New York may never be the same again!After helping to solve murder mysteries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 70-year-old Charlotte Smart is summoned to The Big Apple by an actor brother, Broadway, whose beautiful fashion model sister, Brooklyn, was pushed down a flight of stairs.Charlotte, who insists she is not a police-woman, is set up in a posh hotel in Times Square, and teams with a big-city detective. It's a heady and stirring challenge.Is Charlotte ready for this tough new adventure?

"...Crandell crafts not only a tantalizingly complex crime-one with conspiratorial proportions-but also deftly limns an atmosphere of gloomy transgression and a dark world of crime and subterfuge...A thrilling crime drama, suspenseful and thoughtful."KIRKUS REVIEWS"An exceptional read."MIDWEST BOOK REVIEWA Maryland State Arts Council Award-Winning Novel-----Washington, July 1947Young Congressman John F. Kennedy and private detective Jack Griffin form a tenuous friendship and rivalry at an Army-Navy Club dinner, hours before the eye-catching Betty Dyson is murdered.A probable suspect, Kennedy hires Griffin to investigate, fearing the police will quickly arrest the "playboy congressman." Griffin, a wartime paratrooper and ex-FBI agent learns from detective Vince O'Heaney that the Dyson was raped, slashed, and stabbed.The police see no need for an autopsy, and her fighter ace husband has her cremated. The pilot has an alibi. Kennedy's wealthy father, Joseph P. Kennedy, arrives in Washington to take charge, fearing any public connection of the congressman with the murder will doom his career.With the police building the case against their only suspect, a crooked detective orders Griffin off the Dyson case and offers to cleanse Kennedy's file for $500,000. Meanwhile, two hoodlums ransack Griffin's apartment, rough him up, and warn him off the case. A sometime Kennedy girlfriend is murdered, and police superintendent Blaine wants Congressman Kennedy to help block efforts to investigate corruption involving unsolved murders in Washington. Kennedy makes no commitment.That's when things get rough.William F. Crandell pulls no punches in this this hard-boiled adventure, the first volume in the Jack Griffin Detective Series. Crandell has skillfully resurrected the sharp wit and patter, as well as the unpredictable twists and turns, of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. An award-winning author residing in southern Delaware, Crandell has a storied history with DC politics. The Griffin series crackles with DC authenticity and insider knowledge. Readers who enjoy political intrigue and gritty crime drama will feel at home here.

Hawkshaw Press presents the first volume in Stan Charnofsky''s CHARLOTTE SMART MYSTERY SERIES.This cozy mystery finds Charlotte on the trail of a murderer after her friend, Claire Hazelton, is found dead. Claire''s granddaughter, Meredith, also suspects foul play. Soon it appears as if Charlotte may be the killer''s the next victim. Can she solve the mystery before the murderer strikes?