The blur before his eyes resolved itself into the ceiling of the pool hall in Studs Fedora's building. Three concerned faces leaned over...

Looks like he's coming around... He's lost a lot of blood... Studs heard the words from far away. He felt as though he'd been...

Cara rushed into Studs Fedora's arms, trembling with fright. Studs felt himself trembling as well, but was it from the fight or from...

Studs wheeled and caught the second thug a stunning blow with the shovel. He raised it, ready to smash the guy's teeth, but stopped and...

Studs seized the shovel and leaped over the loose soil of the grave at the thug nearest him. Plastic met plastic with a satisfying thud....

From the shadows stepped two thugs. The faint light glinted off the knife and brass knuckles they brandished as they demanded the records...

According to the plans in the Legotown Archives, all the landowners had the same address. Studs Fedora and Cara Lotts paid them a...

In the Legotown Archives they spent hours searching through filing cabinets, checking property records against Studs' list of slums Lotts...

Studs Fedora followed Cara Lotts to her husband's office, hoping to find a lead among his records. Instead they found chaos. Lotts'...

Studs apologized. She forgave him. He offered a refund. She refused him. He quit the case. She forbade him. He went back out into the...

Studs pulled himself together as best he could and dragged himself to his office. The door stood open, and through it he could see a...

He woke somewhere that looked and smelled worse than his apartment, with his face pressed against cool porcelain and a huge lump on the...

Leaving the station house, Studs Fedora knew he should contact his client. After all, her husband had died almost before his eyes. He...

The cops had questions for Studs Fedora, and when they didn't like his answers, they asked the questions again. Studs didn't like his...

Studs Fedora peered down into the squalid alley behind the hotel. Amid the trash and detritus lay Merton Lotts. Studs stared at him a...

Bricks Bennet moved off at last, and Studs returned to his surveillance of the Hotel. A nagging feeling grew in his mind that he could...

Lotts had been in the Hotel almost an hour when Studs heard his name called. He turned to find himself face to face with Bricks Bennet,...

At last Studs Fedora tailed Merton Lotts out of the slums, but not to anyplace respectable. Lotts entered a fleabag known only as...

Next day Studs Fedora spent following Merton Lotts on his daily routine. The man worked in his office all day doing whatever businessmen...

While Mrs. Lotts collected herself, Studs Fedora gathered basic information about her husband Merton--where he worked, his licence...