A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

Detroit private investigator Amos Walker returns in this noir-style private eye tale.Amos Walker is on the case of the aging pulp fiction writer Eugene Booth who has run out on a publishing deal that was supposed to revive his once-lucrative career. Plunging into Booths seedy world, Walkers chase eventually brings him to a lakeside bungalow in Michigan where he finds Booth pounding out his first novel in a decade with the aid of a 50-year-old Smith Corona and a bottle of Bourbon. When Walker returns to see Booth again, he finds the novelist hanging in the bathroomand the pages he has written are missing. Now its up to Amos Walker to find the truth behind the supposed suicide.