The Case of the Chimp Wore Sequins

A Missing Chimp. A Dead Man on Carousel 6B. A City in Decline.

San Francisco's seen better days-but so has Johnny Rossi. His rent's overdue, his fedora's seen too many storms, and his best friend is a tea-brewing Chinatown sage who quotes Confucius when things get weird (which is often). Rossi is accustomed to odd cases, but when a leggy blonde named Sally Bird hires him to find her missing chimpanzee, Lulu, things spiral out of control faster than a fogbound cable car.

What starts as a searc...