Last Puffs
LAST PUFFS by Harley Mazuk, Mystery/Crime, 293 pp., $14.95 (Paperback) $4.99 (Kindle edition) Title : LAST PUFFS Author : Harley Mazuk Publisher : New Pulp Press Pages : 293 Genre : Mystery/Crime/Private Eye Frank Swiver and his college pal, Max Rabinowitz , both fall in love with Amanda Zingaro , courageous Republican guerilla, in the Spanish civil war. But the local fascists murder her and her father. Eleven years later in San Francisco in 1949, Frank, traumatized by the violence in Spain, has become a pacifist and makes a marginal living as a private eye. Max who lost an eye in Spain but owes his life to Frank, has pledged Frank eternal loyalty. He’s a loyal communist party member and successful criminal attorney. Frank takes on a case for Joan Spring , half-Chinese wife of a wealthy banker. Joan seduces Frank to ensure his loyalty. But Frank busts up a prostitution/white slavery ring at the Lotus House a brothel in Chinatown, where Jo...