Celebrity ghostwriter Hoagy Hoag is dismayed when Thor Gibbs, his former mentor, arrives on his doorstep begging for asylum with his much-younger stepdaughter, now his lover, who is fleeing with him from her incensed mother.

An amateur investigator looks into the case of a reclusive writer who has suddenly sent mysterious typewritten letters to his estranged daughters.

New York City ghostwriter-sleuth Stewart Hoag and his faithful neurotic basset hound, Lulu, investigate three murders that are linked by a stolen manuscript.

"Ghostwriting sleuth Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag investigates the murder of his wealthy neighbor-and discovers her dark, mobbed-up past. A 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one owned by Muriel Cantrell. Living in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West, the delicate, sweet 75-year-old woman is a neighbor of Merilee Nash, the beautiful movie star, and Stewart Hoag, whose first...