Manny Moon, the agile one-legged detective of “The Gallows in My Garden” and “Tweak the Devil’s Nose,” is back again. Naturally it’s murder and this time the murder is committed after a banquet arranged, ironically enough, to celebrate...
In Manny Moon’s book there’s a dame behind every murder... and murder behind every dame. But the murder of the Lieutenant-governor of a large mid-western state abruptly left Moon’s book one chapter shy — while the steady hand of the killer...
Two gambling kingpins go to war — and Manville Moon is caught in the middle When an upstart gangster named Byron Wade threatens Louis Bagnell’s gambling empire, Bagnell attempts to hire Manville Moon, a detective whose loss of a leg has not...
Manville Moon is a private investigator. On a night out with his girlfriend Fausta Moreni, the lovely owner of the El Patio Cafe, a group of customers invites them both to a private party at an inventor's home, to celebrate the launch of a business...