Following Pearl Harbor, Quentin "Q" Haggerty is working in an Oregon shipyard when his attractive assistant Mattie asks him to investigate the theft of a family heirloom. Q is drawn to Mattie and thinks of himself as something of an amateur sleuth, but soon stumbles on to two murders. While working the case he becomes torn between wholesome Mattie and the tempting but mysterious Angelina, a platinum blonde torch singer stalked by an overprotective mob boss. Mattie disappears, haunted by her past. Q needs brains, luck and perseverance to survive a saboteur at the shipyard, push aside dangerous temptation and bring back Mattie. Novel #1 in the Quentin Haggerty Series