On the first day of 1950, private investigator Lawrence Mallory just wants to enjoy a quiet martini—but trouble walks in wearing cheap shoes.
A shady ex-client offers him money to hold an envelope—no questions asked. Mallory declines, but that night someone breaks into his home looking for it. Soon he’s waking up in a loan shark’s office with a splitting headache, his own gun on the floor, and two dead bodies—both of them the same man.
With the cops closing in, Mallory must unravel the truth with help from his sharp-tongued wife and their crime-solving teen daughter.
One man. Two corpses. A missing envelope. And a city full of suspects.
What’s in the envelope that’s worth killing for?
