Shelley Singer

Jake Samson is an erstwhile private detective. His buddy, Artie Perrine, a magazine editor, "hires" him to exonerate his nephew, Alan, who is accused of murdering James Smith, an executive of a rather sketchy outfit that alleges to do at home teaching, Bright Future Home Study Plan, Inc.

It was an amusing enough book that I'd give it 3* were GoodReads to allow such a thing.

Jake Samson, ex-cop, living a laid back life is ask to investigate the death of a professor's wife.
An easy read but not difficult to determine the killer.

Samson is asked to investigate the death of a business man when a son's friend is arrested for the murder. Moral of the story is never to run screaming when you find the body of a man you used to know and had an argument with and then lie to the police about it.

Jake and Rosie , mysterious ark builder disappears