Naples Nocturne

With a Master's degree in Renaissance history and a law degree, (not a great combination) Florida Gulf Coast's newest and off-the-wall private investigator, Joshua 'Banger' Maine, investigates cases his own way-outside the envelope but without the envelope. Having tried his hand at law and conventional policing he deduced that the more stimulating life of a P. I. was for him. Set among the palms and wealth of ritzy Naples, Florida, Nocturne swings up and down Florida's southern Gulf Coast, over to Key West, Miami's Calle Ochos and the Tortugas as he strives to identity the killer after being hired by the philanthropic victim's alluring niece-heiress, Monica Gladwin.
His pain-in-the-neck, uninvited side-kick, news hen Jennie Jordan, is behind him all the way telling him why he is wrong about everything, until he counters with his off-the-wall theory, the Presumption Against Evidentiary Tautology. And, as Banger says: I never wanted to be another Phillip Marlowe or Sam Spade.