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It must be something in the air. First, reclusive circuit judge Just Watson -- who is now, by attrition, Gideon Lowry's closest living relative -- announces that he's retiring from the bench and getting married. Then Casey, Gideon's sometime lover, calls from Miami with the news that she's engaged. Gideon isn't drowning his sorrows in rum these days, but a true Conch needs something more than hibiscus and humidity to take the edge off. A date arranged through the island's discreet escort service doesn't disappoint. Katy Morgan is lovely: a fragile reminder of Gideon's long-lost youth. The next morning, Katy appears at Gideon's Duval Street home to engage his services -- as a private eye. She confesses she has something that doesn't really belong to her: a jewel-encrusted gold chalice from one of the old Spanish ships now being salvaged off the coast. Frightened yet defiant, she's wary of divulging more. A day later Katy's dead, sprawled on the linoleum floor of her shabby trailer, the open oven spewing gas. The chalice is nowhere to be found. When Gideon last saw her alive, in the club where his piano soothes weary hearts with Gershwin and Porter, she'd been arguing with a man Gideon didn't recognize. Now that man -- Joe Delgado, a deputy to treasure salvor Brendan Scott -- is sitting white-knuckled in Gideon's wicker chair, anxious to hire him to clear up the mystery of Katy's death, and to find the missing chalice. Gideon's investigation leads from Scott's wealthy local investors to the judge, embarrassed by an indiscreet long-ago affair, to cop Webb Conners, a buddy from Gideon's drinking days who's recently added sex to his list of addictions. Suspicion even lights on the judge's fiancee, a socially ambitious woman whose first husband had ties to the salvage business and died broke. But the truth of Katy's death lies deeper than greed, and the stench of it will take more than a stiff sea breeze to blow away.

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John Leslie is the author of the novel Border Crossing (2013) and four Gideon Lowry Key West mysteries, as well as five Florida mysteries. He divides his time between Key West and Sonoma, California.
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Displaying less lounge lizardry and more sleuthing than in his previous two outings (Killing Me Softly; Night and Day), Key West PI and cocktail pianist Gideon Lowry investigates the purported suicide of a young woman. It seems that half the men in town knew paid escort Katy Morgan intimately. Lowry used her services; so did Brendan Scott, in the salvage business, and Joe Delgado, Scott's right-hand man. Morgan's death comes just when she was poised to turn her life around. She had reconnected with her father and had recently come into possession of a valuable chalice, which several parties showed some interest in buying. After her death, Lowry takes possession of the chalice and a list of her clients. Meanwhile, a reclusive and elderly judge is thinking about getting married. His intended is a little younger, more outgoing, and has a surly son in town. The judge's first wife died in a car crash, and the judge himself is soon involved in a similar accident. His fiancee's first husband was an inventor and treasure hunter. Leslie gives his hero an interesting supporting cast, including three ex-wives and a cop pal who drinks and whores with fervor, and makes much of Lowry's breezy, tourist-infested town. Apart from them, virtually everything and everyone are connected, as Lowry proves in solving the mysteries surrounding Morgan's death.
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