Tom Gnagey

The Case of the Convoluted Kidnappings Tom Gnagey

Book Two. Adults and young adults. In Tommy's second outing, he happens upon what appears to be the kidnapping of an eight-year-old boy - grandson of a crime family Don who engages him to investigate. The case has him mixed up in a dispute between mobs in his city and leads him on a merry chase that gets him accused of perpetrating the abduction, requires him to move into a safe hide-a-way, trade his Dodge for a Bug, take a shot to his shoulder, get beaten to a pulp (well, not quite a pulp), save the boy's beautiful mother, and, in the end, wrap it all up in a neat bow. The usual characters support him; Jerry, the boy genius from book one, Jake and Betty from the diner, and Sarge, his former police partner.