The Brass Cupcake

Hardcover with Dustjacket. 220 pages. Author's debut novel, first published in 1950 as a Gold Medal paperback original and later in hardcover in England in 1974, features Cliff Bartells, ex-cop now an insurance investigator, hunting the thieves who stole $750,000 in jewelry and murdered a woman to do it. Set against the seedy, sensual backdrop of a Florida Beach Town.