Minnesota Strip : Canning Park Press : 9781941517239 : 1941517234 : 01 Sep 2017 : Dan Fortune, the one-armed private detective of the Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning series, goes on the hunt for a young idealist missing in New York City in a suspense-filled mystery Library Journal labeled "powerful." It's 1987, and Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 57th streets is notorious for prostitution and crimes of violence. Locals and the cops call it the Minnesota Strip because so many of the hookers are runaways from the Midwest. It's here that a beautiful Vietnamese woman comes to find fame, but instead ends up savagely gunned down in an alley behind a bar, where thieves strip off her jewelry, clothes, high heels, even her bra and panties. The police have no way to identify her. But then a young man from Long Island arrives and gives them her name. Soon he's gone, and no one seems to know where. The fellow's girlfriend, Judy Lavelle, unsophisticated and worried, hires Fortune to find him. "There w