Stakeout on Page Street

More the 30 years ago a young private investigator named Joe Gores was encouraged by the great mystery critic Anthony Boucher to record his experiences in a series of short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Thus began the first tales that looked at a PI's cases as they actually happened, from the very serious (for instance, when a repo-man can send a woman to suicide) to the comic (as when the Dan Kearny associates have to grab a fire engine that hasn't been