Leave a Message for Willie — Marcia Muller

PRIVATE EYE SHARON McCONE takes on a case for Willie Whelan, a vendor at the local San Francisco flea market--not to mention his moon-lighting job as a fence. She's checking up on a silent man in dark clothes and a yarmulke who has been hanging around Willie's stall.

Sharon soon learns that the man is one Jerry Levin, who claims to work for a group that recovers stolen Torahs. Shortly after, Sharon finds Levin in Willie's garage--dead, with a bullet in the back of his head. When Willie's girlfriend, Alida, is found slain in the same neighborhood, Sharon realizes she's not only here to unravel the mystery of the missing Torahs, but must, also clear her client's name with the police...and keep one crucial step ahead of a very determined killer.