Kiss Him Goodbye — Simon Swift

ROBBERY, MURDER, BETRAYAL AND SEX. It's June 1936, New York. World Champ, Joe Louis, battered at the Yankees Stadium and violent robberies across the City, the Hindenberg floats into town as New Yorkers swelter in the 106 degrees heat, Harlem River bridges expanding and Detectives getting murdered. Private Eye, Dyke Spanner, has twenty-four hours to live. The debts are piling up, the threats are coming in and his partner, Bowman, is violently brutalized and slain. Spanner knows that unless he finds $20,000 fast, he will be next. In walks Sabina Guest, timid, desperate and willing to do anything. She needs his help. Her sister, Alicia, a beautiful, alluring model has gone missing and she begs a reluctant Spanner to help. A $10,000 retainer and a midnight liaison seal the deal. But he didn't know it was going to be a weekend in hell. Nothing is how it seems. Sex, murder, betrayal, porn stars, gangsters and corruption, everywhere he turns ....