Feelers: A Novel of the Italian Renaissance

Morty Martinez is known in the industry of estate liquidation as a "feeler." If you were to look him up in the Brooklyn yellow pages, he would be listed under "home content removal," but his real job is looking for stashes of cash crammed into tin cans that have been left out of wills, kept out of banks, and hidden away for decades by the frugal elderly suspicious of ATMs and the IRS.

When Morty hits upon the biggest score of his life, over $800,000.00, he knows that news travels fast and ...