Gold Digger

From the pen of R. Archer. Outstanding author of crime fiction comes a tale of a Private Detective with a style and class of his own. Forget Sam Spade, Mike Hammer and Phillip Marlowe.

Gold Digger is the pilot novel of The Case Files of Harvey Valentine Private Dick. Written in the tradition of old time radio private detectives, and film noir for the modern era. In this novel, the reader gets inside Harvey's head and learns what makes him tick, and discovers the local corruption existing in Harvey's home town.

Our protagonist accepts the case of a beautiful woman, who has a plan, and Harvey is part of her plan. Hired to find his client's husband, Harvey discovers more than what he bargained for.

Gold Digger is set in Michigan, with one of its locations taking place in Muskegon Heights. A city of only 10,000 people with a violent crime rate that almost equals Detroit.

Alex S. Johnson, English Professor, Editor of countless anthologies and Author of Bad Sunset, has described R. Archer's Harvey Valentine as, the new Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler of Hard-Boiled Fiction.