Jack Kline

But Not for Me Jack Kline

Hard drinking, small potatoes PI Phil Morris scores the biggest case of his life when political boss Tom Holloway hires him to find Holloway's missing twenty-year-old son. It's mid-October, 1934, and a war between the Irish and Sicilian mobs engulfs Kansas City. Holloway straddles the fence as two mobs struggle for dominance. His son grew up with the sons of Irish mob leaders. Mere weeks before his disappearance he became tight with the primary Sicilian enforcer.

Phil and his friendly rival, Rusty Callahan, pursue the leads, but someone goes to great lengths-even murder-to blunt the investigation. The treacherous trail they follow reveals suspects in both mobs as well as KC's police department. And against his better judgment, Phil falls hard for the seductive Holloway daughter, Colleen, who seems sick over her younger brother's disappearance, but is she really? And is she the one for Phil?

Phil's investigation slogs through the streets of Kansas City, its jazz clubs, and into opulence that defies a country in depression. Will the twists and turns of this vexing case mean the end of Phil's career... or his life?