Dead Set

Dead Set is the first in the Fortune P.I. novels by Terry Harknett aka George G.Gilman of Edge the loner fame. Los Angeles P.I. Chester Fortune is working for Marvyn P. Tranter after his fellow P.I. Ross Paine is attacked. Someone has killed Tranter's wife and stolen collectable medals and he wants them back and his wife's killer brought to justice. But Fortune's problems are compounded with Tranter's devil-may-care daughter prowling LA's seedy backstreets, and blackmail thrown in. Fortune's got his work cut out to solve the case before he becomes the next victim… Terry Harknett has written under an array of pseudonyms, including George G. Gilman (edge and Adam Steele westerns, Joseph Hedges, William M. James, Charles R. Pike, Thomas H. Stone, Frank Chandler, Jane Harman, Alex Peters, William Pine, William Terry, James Russell and David Ford.