A Concrete Garter Belt (Maggie Sullivan mysteries)

(This SHORT STORY features characters from the author's full-length Maggie Sullivan mystery novels.)

The woman with work-roughened hands begs 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan to find her kid sister, the sister she's raised since the girl was a toddler. But two days later Maggie's client is dead. Everyone, cops included, brushes it off as suicide born of despair. Everyone except Maggie.

With her Smith & Wesson and a nip of gin, the flinty detective sets out to uncover the fate of th...