Today is publication day for SMFS list member Martin Hill Ortiz’s new book, Floor 24. Published by Oliver-Heber Books, the book is available at Amazon and other vendors.
Amazon Description:
Manhattan, 1926.
A pen falls from a high
rise and shatters at the feet of New York World reporter and World War vet Alan
Priest. Its broken barrel bears the name and office of Fritch Designs on the
24th floor. On a whim, he investigates. After he reaches Floor 24, he finds a
window open and a corpse on the sidewalk below. A gawker from a nearby office
window recognizes the corpse by her dress, sees Alan looking out the victim's
window and screams.
Someone bolts from the
office, and a hasty pursuit ends in a policeman being hurled to his death and
Alan being accused of both murders.
He seeks shelter with the
help of gentlemen's club hostess Lorraine Marquette, which lands both of them
in police custody. But the mob king of New York has the police in his clutches
and soon Alan and Lorraine find themselves released solely to uncover the
secret behind Fritch Designs, a secret that could cost them their lives as they
evade assassins and brave the lethal heights of a city growing at a mad pace.
Floor 24 is a heart-stopping, old-fashioned adventure with a
reckless pace and breakneck twists.
