A gritty graphic pulp fiction about the temptation damnation and redemptionof Frank Grissel an aging hardknuckled private eyeand a deeply closetedhomosexual set... » 

A gritty graphic pulp fiction about the temptation damnation and redemptionof Frank Grissel an aging hardknuckled private eyeand a deeply closetedhomosexual set in the very real world of 1953 San Francisco.Aided by his longsuffering secretary and sometime livein lover LorettaGrissels search for a runaway girl winds up with him becoming a suspect in astring of gruesome murders. The case takes twists and turns through the GoldenGates greasy underbelly the beguiling arms of Chinese shipping heiress andsmuggler Lady Tze an unexpected reunion with Betty Grey the daughter heabandoned long ago the loss of Loretta to the sadistic clutches of the highpowered Colonel and finally the horrifying genderbending truth about therunaway and the murders and all those missing organs. Frank also confronts hisown horrifying truth earning his daughters forgiveness and perhaps thelove of another man. «