Yesterday's News — Jeremiah Healy

MURDER ON DEADLINE

"Perched on the edge of greatness," they said about the run-down port city of Nasharbor, Massachusetts. Of course, they were the same guys who were pushing a condominium development on the waterfront, and who might be tied up with the death of a high-strung young reporter. She'd come to Detective John Cuddy about a Nasharbor pornography ring, police corruption, and a confidential source who died in a back alley. A few hours later she was dead, and Cuddy had nine hundred of her dollars to find out why.

In Nasharbor nobody welcomed a Boston P.I. asking questions. But when it came to pulling the covers off a grimy red-light realm of kickbacks, violence and murder, Cuddy had a way of making himself at home.