These Tears for Hire

In post-war Kansas City of 1946. Vivian Frisco, a grieving war widow and telephone switchboard operator, is thrust into a dangerous investigation after her Japanese friend is murdered. With the police indifferent due to the victim's ethnicity, Vivian reluctantly takes up the detective mantle her late husband left behind. With the help of a dashing Army Air Corps pilot, Derek O'Brien, Vivian navigates the seedy underbelly of the city, meeting a variety of characters from political bosses to ...