Saratoga Snapper

Join charming, shambling private detective Charlie Bradshaw for one of crime fiction's cleverest and funniest series, The Charlie Bradshaw Mysteries, written by award-winning poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns

Everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw returns with sidekick Victor Plotz for a fourth mystery in Saratoga Springs.

In search of an easy buck, Victor has found a sideline taking photos of tourists, but his new career nearly kills him when he is the subject of a hit and run and his camera in snatched.

Meanwhile, Charlie has his own problems when a maid is apparently murdered in the hotel owned by his mother and a waiter suspiciously vanishes. The two cases come together as a spate of robberies suggests something else is going on.