Bogus Dime, The North Pole Detective

A detective they call Bogus. A murder no one else will see.

Donald Dime has earned a reputation—just not the kind he'd choose. Dismissed as a fraud by his Chicago rivals, the North Pole detective arrives in Slab City expecting nothing more than a quiet farewell to a forgettable assignment. Then he walks into a hotel and hears a voice he'd know anywhere.

Clarice Evans is an old friend from simpler days. Her world, however, is anything but simple. A young woman lies dead in her father's mansion, and no one can explain why a perfectly healthy girl simply stopped living in the night.

No one except Donald.

Hidden behind a dead woman's ear, he finds a broken needle—hairline-thin, invisible to anyone who isn't looking, and soaked in a poison that kills instantly. What the household believes is a tragic mystery, Donald recognizes as something colder and more deliberate: murder designed to look like nothing at all.

As Donald digs deeper, every suspect wears a respectable face. A grieving father whose grief runs disturbingly hot. A doctor whose calm manner conceals something sharper. A shadowy ship owner with a knife-wielding thug on his payroll. And Clarice herself—beautiful, trembling, and fainting at exactly the wrong moment.

The killer chose a weapon too small to see and too subtle to trace.

But Donald Dime built his name finding what others miss.

Can he name the murderer before the needle finds another victim?