Hearse case scenario
(Book)

"Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble." "A childhood friend has been charged with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone into hiding - and she's taken his ever-vivacious ex-wife, Julia, with her. Enlisting the help of a lovably rumpled private eye who is in the midst of a midlife crisis, Hitch's search for his friends and the real killer takes him from smoky jazz joints, to the world of illegal sports gambling, to the beach (in his hearse, natch) - and, as usual, to a few too many of Baltimore's colorful bars and saloons. Who holds the clue to the real killer's identity? The sultry chanteuse? The felonius painter? The sexy young slip-of-a-thing who wraps men around her finger?"--BOOK JACKET.