heiress

Hicks McTaggart’s pursuit of a runaway heiress lands him in Hungary among Nazis, British spies and many more friends and foes.

All begins sunnily, however, in the year 1899, when Evelyn, a self-confessed hack writer of travel books, with one failed novel to his name, marries an American heiress.

The author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” sends a private eye on the trail of a missing heiress in a complex, comic, Prohibition-era caper.

The magazine painted Johnson, widely known by her nickname Libet, as another spoiled American heiress with too much money and not enough purpose.

In a scenario straight out of Dashiell Hammett’s early stories, a detective agency operative named Hicks McTaggart gets an assignment to chase down the runaway heiress to a major cheese fortune.