num_pages: 350
description: James Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, is cynical, resourceful, and tough. He lives by a moral code, one which he believes helps him distinguish right from wrong, fact from fiction, and truth from lies. But as Cartwright discovers during each of his cases, it's one thing to believe in the code, and quite another to live by it.In each case, Cartwright uses his intellect, brute force, and unique powers of deduction in unwitting his unsuspecting adversariesIn Call of the Nightingale, the 2nd book in the series, Cartwright, sets out to prove the innocence of a seventeen-year-old girl named, Alice.She’s suspected of murdering her grandfather, Professor Carmichael. But the murder turns out to be anything but straightforward. Carmichael, a leading genetic scientist, has a dark past, dating back to the American Eugenics programs.
language: English
title: Call of the Nightingale: A James Cartwright PI Mystery
publisher: Original Press