Call of the Nightingale

Cartwright is cynical, resourceful, and tough. He lives by a moral code, one which he believes helps him distinguish right from wrong, fact from fiction, and truth from lies. But as Cartwright discovers during each of his cases, it's one thing to believe in the code, and quite another to live by it. In each case, Cartwright uses his intellect, brute force, and unique powers of deduction in unwitting his unsuspecting adversaries. James Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, is cynical, resourceful, and tough. He lives by a moral code, one which he believes helps him distinguish right from wrong, fact from fiction, and truth from lies. But as Cartwright discovers during each of his cases, it's one thing to believe in the code, and quite another to live by it. In each case, Cartwright uses his intellect, brute force, and unique powers of deduction in unwitting his unsuspecting adversaries In his latest case, James Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, sets out to prove the innocence of a seventeen-year-old girl named, Alice. She's suspected of murdering her grandfather, Professor Carmichael. However, the murder turns out to be anything but straightforward. Carmichael, a leading genetic scientist, has a dark and sinister past, dating back to the 1930s American Eugenics program.