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R.T. Graves aims to be the most dispassionate private detective in New York. With few scruples, fewer friends, a dwindling business and swelling debts, he's close to hitting his mark before an excommunicated uptown heiress commissions Graves to find her estranged brother. Complications arise steadily. And Graves steps into a perilous ring of assaults, robberies, kidnappings, murders and general mayhem. Graves tries to stay a step ahead and a drink behind, but never quite manages to handle everything thrown at him. Impatient bookies, revenge seeking junkies, shipping moguls, gossiping...