Too Soon Dead — Michael Kurland

Follow the adventures of a famed newspaper columnist through 1930s New York City in this first installment of a witty and atmospheric historical mystery series.
 
Columnist extraordinary Alexander Brass needs a story -- but will his latest end in his own death?

It all begins when a furtive tipster promises an explosive story and gives Morgan DeWitt -- assistant to New York World celebrity newsman Alexander Brass -- an envelope filled with photographs of the most compromising nature.

But when the tipster turns up murdered, Brass and his team resolve to find the killer, running the gauntlet of blackmailing Nazis, accommodating nymphomaniacs and US senators on the way.