The Queen City Private Eye series

Staying alive in Queen City ain’t cheap.

Hardboiled 1930s private-eye mysteries starring Mickey Hook: broke, bruised, and too stubborn to quit.

Cover of The Twenty-Four Dollar Setup: a man in shirtsleeves lights the cigarette of a red-haired woman in a black hat and pearls
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She smelled like rain, money, and a mistake waiting to happen.

The Twenty-Four Dollar Setup is an exclusive prequel chapter to the Queen City Private Eye series. A rent-overdue PI, a woman in black silk, and an easy twenty-four bucks that isn’t easy at all. Join C’s newsletter and it’s yours free.

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Cover of The Stolen Life Caper by C Michaels: a detective in a fedora beside a sheet-covered body in a morgue
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The Stolen Life Caper

The body on the slab is a lie. The cops say it’s one woman, but Mickey knows better. Twenty-four hours: take the payout, or earn a toe tag of his own.

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Bonus: the prequel short The Setup Caper is included inside.

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