num_pages: 195
description: Dick McNabb, private investigator, was a history teacher for many years. But, as a widower and retiree, he needs some excitement in his life, and hey, anyone can be a private eye, right? Well, yes and no. Dick may be educated and quite intelligent, but when it comes to criminology, he's a beginner. Predictably, he gets himself into a fine mess trying to solve a year-old murder in his coastal California city. He has some fun, as women pursue him even as he is pursuing suspects, and vice-versa, but his life gets more complicated than he intended. There are strange characters and strange friends for him to sort out, angles and clues to work on, suspicions, parties, derring-do, gun shots and some plain old gumshoeing. Sex, as usual, complicates things. He even sinks to following an errant husband while armed with a pistol, a camera and a fake policeman's badge. He manages to do some smart work and with a little luck he appears to have started a new career - over the protestations of his police captain friend. He gets deeper and deeper into trouble playing cop with some very bad people. He finds that there is a reason why police carry guns and why there are prisons. He finds that if a killer can be so heartless as to shoot one person, he can shoot two. Dick would be the second.
language: English
title: Dick McNabb, Private Dick
titlecomplete: Dick McNabb, Private Dick
publisher: McSeas Books