Rex tries to sort through his loose ends with Hobie Hoobler, the old blind newsie, but comes up with nanty as to who is killing the aerialists of Top Town. Our heroic bigshoe is forced to throw himself head first into some dangerous company to shake loose new clues.

Episode 15 of 23 (From the e-book of the same name, available at Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YFEUCQ)

Rex and Jimmy Plummett try to rescue Reynaldo Carlozo from the attacker who has dragged him into the alley. Rex pins the assailant down, then watches Carlozo run away. The attacker has family connections to other unsavory characters in the story. Rex and Jimmy end up at the Hi-Wire, and Jimmy tells Rex he can get answers to his questions about the murders by going to a certain high-stakes poker game.

Episode 14 of 23 (From the book of the same name, available at Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YFEUCQ)

Rex plays a sticky prank on Jimmy Plummett at the Hi-Wire. Jimmy gives him more flap on why Boots Carlozo is a “Black Widow”, then watches as someone dear to him gets accosted and dragged by the throat into an alley.

Those ginger-headed bastards, the Redd Brothers, have ambushed Rex in an abandoned blacksmith shop. The fight is interrupted by Detective Pinky Piscopink, who sends Missouri Redd and Maine Redd packing. Piscopink tries to get Rex to admit to the recent killings, but Rex is more determined than ever to solve the case, just to spite "Javert Junior". A search of Berndt Bork's shack turns up another piece of evidence connecting the two killings.

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Episode 12 of 23 (From the e-book of the same name, available at Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YFEUCQ)

On his way to meet his client, Rex is interrupted by Mayor Eugene X. Brody and his entourage. Brody is dragging newspaper reporters around Top Town with him, trying to explain away his embarrassing presence in the ghetto’s cathouses the day before. Once he escapes, Rex finds that Carlozo has stood him up, but a couple of other playmates have come to pass the time.

Episode 11 of 23 (From the book of the same name, available at Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YFEUCQ)