Wall of Brass

The body lay in the rain on a Manhattan street, half on the sidewalk, the face in the gutter. Since no one went near it, Chief of Detectives Bert Farber knew it must be someone important. But he didn’t know it was the man who had stolen his girl and risen to power on a wave of self-promotion. Or what dark forbidden secrets the dead man kept. The mayor has given Farber ten days to solve the crime, and already the top brass have begun blocking the investigation. “Absorbing…carefully wrought…g...