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In postwar Philadelphia, truth hides in the smoke–and sometimes, so does death.

Private investigator Cole Harper doesn’t go looking for trouble, but when a woman walks into his office claiming her husband is cheating, a simple domestic case turns into something far more dangerous. A photo, a Chinatown receipt, and a string of half-truths lead Harper into a fog of deception, opium dens, and velvet-draped rooms where the wrong question can get a man killed.

James Olsen was just a bookkeeper. At least, that’s what they said. But when Harper finds him dead in a private club and the woman who hired him vanishes into thin air, he knows he’s in over his head—or right where someone wants him.

Someone is cleaning up loose ends. And Cole Harper just became one of them.

Gritty, atmospheric, and laced with dry wit, Behind Paper Walls continues the acclaimed noir series for fans of Chandler, Hammett, and hardboiled mysteries that don’t flinch.

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