When an old friend buys a trenchcoat and opens his own detective agency PI Cat DeLuca sees a train wreck Because everything Billy Bonham knows about being a private dick he learned from Humphrey Bogart And thats just enough to make him dangerousThe bungling detective is way over his head on a case involving murder and a stolen pair of Marilyn Monroes dazzling diamond earrings His outrageous client Cristina McTigue is pursued by men who want her dead Five minutes after meeting the woman Cat would cheerfully kill her tooWhen Billy is gunned down on the street its up to Cat to save his crazy client and nail a murderer She soon finds herself dodging bullets knee-deep in trouble and chasing diamonds Before its over shell be helped by her sexy FBI boyfriend a hunky ex-spy her outrageous Italian family of Chicago cops and her interfering Mama who keeps the cannoli comingWith a cast of zany characters and a pace thats unrelenting this laugh-out-loud mystery is best served hot.
