New York Confidential — Isidore Haiblum

From the casebook of Morris Weiss:

It's always good to have a paying client. And even better if the paying client is a beautiful woman. Rich also doesn't hurt.

There are times when one case turns out to be another case. This should be avoided whenever possible. Sometimes, of course, it is not possible.

I never worry about entrusting a case to Max. What he might lack in experience he makes up for by being very smart. Naturally, the trait runs in the family...

Introducing the uncle and nephew team of WEISS & WEISS

Max Weiss, P.I., learned his trade from his Uncle Morris--a New York private eye with a colorful career that dates back decades. As the junior partner in Weiss & Weiss, Max may lack Morris's experience, but a new case is putting his skills to the test. An elderly scholar has vanished, apparently by his own will. But this is about more than a missing person. In fact, with each new revelation, Max is drawing disquieting parallels to a case his uncle worked on half a century ago, one that reaches back to the disappearance of a dope peddler in 1940's bohemian Manhattan, and to a secret in Nazi Germany that's still casting a shadow over one man's life--and another man's death...