Milt Davis is way out of his league--he thinks. The FBI solves plane crashes, not small-time private eyes. Then he's shot at, beat up, and caught in a lie by the one person he'd like to know better. But the dark truth is emerging. And now Milt knows he's on familiar territory--between men, women and money they don't deserve.
"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952.
While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.
He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten.
A basic novella by McBain, about a run of the mill private investigator working a case involving an airplane bombing. Unravels pretty quickly in the finish. Not one of the best McBain efforts.