The next clever, witty, and touching installment in the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series finds the beloved ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful neurotic basset hound, Lulu, back 1990’s NEW YORK, investigating a bestselling author’s stolen manuscript and 3 murders from the crime.

Washed-up celebrity ghostwriter Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag has finally rediscovered his voice and it is making progress on what he hopes will be his long-awaited second novel. Burrowed up about THE PERSON in the White colored Linen Fit: A Stewart Hoag Mystery in his less-than-luxurious, sweltering fifth flooring walk-up, he attempts not to think about the disparities between himself and his ex-wife, celebrity celebrity Merilee Nash, who’s sifting through film offers-and also her fickle emotions for Hoagy-from her elegant eight-room apartment looking over Central Park. When Merilee offers her house for Hoagy’s use while she’s shooting on location, hope blossoms that he might finally get some good real work completed… and solidify their rekindling romance.

After that Hoagy receives a contact from his literary agent asking if he can talk with publishing’s most ruthless and reviled editor, Sylvia James, for a glass or two in the Algonquin Hotel. After disclosing that ageing literary genius Addison James-also Sylvia’s father and main client-has not in fact written his last two bestselling historical sagas, Sylvia reveals her suspicions that Addison’s assistant Tommy O’Brien-the accurate author-has run away with their latest manuscript and is holding it for ransom. Tempted by Sylvia’s present to bid a hefty progress for his novel-in-progress, Hoagy agrees to help unearth Tommy’s unexpected disappearance. If only he’d known exactly what he was getting himself into, he might’ve kept himself from your ensuing grief that comes after in his popular pursuit of Tommy. But then, that wouldn’t be a normal time in the life span of Hoagy.

With clattering claims of the mugging, a stolen manuscript, and three murders, now it’s up to Hoagy and his short-legged sidekick Lulu to unravel this baffling, bizarre case.