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The day was typical for private detective Joe Caruso. But when Phyllis Steele, a beautiful and wealthy Chicago socialite, walked into his office, he had little idea what lay ahead. She hires Caruso to find her former lover, an ex-professional boxer named Julio Silva, recently released from prison. The same man whose sister, Maria, Joe Caruso, arrested years ago for murder. What happens next isn't typical. The judge who sentenced Silva to prison is murdered-thrown from his apartment window. The next day Phyllis Steele is found dead, brutally beaten in a way that a professional boxer would inflict injury. A string of murders follows concluding with an attempt on Caruso's life. With help from Katrina Warring, Caruso's lady friend and the chief crime reporter for the Daily News, and homicide Lieutenant Shakespeare, they construct a list of suspects longer than Caruso's arm. Who is the killer? Phyllis Steele's husband, his secretary, her attorney brother, Phyllis' blackmailing doctor, or the hired gun? The answer will surprise you.