Dick Malone
The Man with an Ass for a Face

London, after the war. The bricks are broken, the neon is bright, and everyone lies for a living.

Dick Malone fits right in. He's a washed-up American private eye with a rented office, a permanent scepticism, and a talent for finding trouble even when he's not looking for it.

When a desperate woman hires him to find her missing husband, Seymour Reichtum, Malone expects the usual: a cheating spouse, a cheap hotel, and a messy little secret. What he gets is a second wife, a trail of body parts, a convent full of dangerous nuns, and a case that keeps getting stranger every time someone opens their mouth.

The deeper Malone digs, the darker London gets. Strip clubs, police cells, secret wards and powerful men all seem to point back to the same question: is Seymour Reichtum missing, hiding, or something much worse?

Crude, fast-paced, violent and darkly funny, The Man with an Ass for a Face introduces private eye Dick Malone in a hard-boiled comic noir mystery for readers who like their detectives damaged, their villains dangerous, and their punchlines soaked in blood and whiskey.