Minnesota Strip — Peter McCurtin

Private investigator Pete Shay was down on his luck—if he’d ever had any to begin with—so when a battered deck hand from Duluth named Thomas Jannssen offered him seven hundred dollars to track down his missing daughter, Shay agreed.His search for the girl led him straight to that section of New York’s 8th Avenue known as the Minnesota Strip, where teenage hookers and their pimps make the scene in a twilight world of booze, drugs, and violence.Shay thought he’d seen every kind of depravity known to man.It took this case to prove that he was wrong.