The Case of the Missing Santa Claus

One of the perils of Christmas is having to get along without Santa Claus.
When a cynical, hard-boiled, private detective puts aside a deadly feud with a local mobster to search for a young woman’s missing father—a beloved department store Santa—he discovers what happened has everything to do with someone trying to change the rules about Christmas.
It’s author says, “The story came about one day when I remembered a list someone once made of the hard-boiled vocabulary used by the great myster...