"Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a police captain in turn-of-the-century New York City, is in a precarious position. The new police commissioner wants him off the force altogether. So when Daniel's offered an assignment from John Wilkie, head of the secret service, he's eager to accept. Molly can't draw any details of the assignment out of him, even where he'll be working. But when she spots him in San Francisco during a movie news segment,...

1947 New York City's only female private investigator Allie Fortune is hired by a woman running from Soviets that ransacked her apartment and shot at her. She discovers an international mystery that puts her own life in danger. The FBI is working the case as well, and Allie has been partnered up with an attractive, single agent who would be perfect for her under other circumstances--if only she knew whether her fianceé, who disappeared in the war,...