Sammy Two Shoes
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Publisher Description
Amateur sleuth and Child Protective Officer Foggy Moscowitz is back in New York, but his visit leads to stunning revelations – and murder – when he runs into his old friend, Sammy Two Shoes.
1976. Foggy Moscowitz has decided to pay his hometown of New York a visit and soon bumps into his old friend, Sammy ‘Two Shoes’ Cohen. Sammy wants a favor – Emory Brewster, an actor in an all-female production of Hamlet, is sending threatening notes to Sammy’s girlfriend and the play’s stage manager, Phoebe Peabody, and Sammy asks Foggy to speak to her. But before he has a chance, Emory is brutally murdered backstage and Phoebe is arrested. The other actors all despised Emory, but as Foggy strives to prove Phoebe’s innocence, Sammy stuns him with an astonishing revelation. Is he telling the truth, or is there more to the story?
Foggy is reluctantly pulled back into New York’s criminal underworld as he uncovers more about Emory Brewster. Can he stay alive long enough to catch her killer?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1976, DePoy's entertaining fifth Foggy Moskowitz mystery (after 2019's Sidewalk Saint) takes Foggy, a semireformed thief, back to New York City. Despite being the subject of an active warrant in New York, Foggy sneaks back there from Florida to hear a favorite jazz singer perform. While he's sitting in a bar awaiting the show, he's accosted by a friend and former partner-in-crime, Sammy Two Shoes. Sammy's girlfriend, Phoebe Peabody, the stage manager for an all-female production of Hamlet set in a prison, needs help. Phoebe suspects that Emory Taylor, who plays Ophelia, is out to kill her, because Phoebe was about to fire the actor. Foggy regards the evidence as thin—a note left for Phoebe quoting a line from Hamlet—but agrees to visit the theater and talk to Emory. Foggy later attends the show, but after the performance Emory is found dead backstage with a pencil thrust through her neck. DePoy manages to keep things plausible as Foggy gets involved in a murder investigation. Series fans will be intrigued by the setup for the next book.
