Clint West is a P.I. living life on the edge of a bottle.
His days are spent chasing down divorce cases and runaways while trying to eek out a living, dreaming of retirement. When a couple of mobsters approach Clint with a case involving a cellar full of dead gangsters, his life is destined to change. The case smells like trouble, but when they start waiving around a fat paycheque, Clint can finally see his retirement on the horizon. Desperate for the money, Clint reluctantly takes on the case.
The first novella in A Century in Garden City, Portrait of a Massacre takes Clint all across the noir-soaked streets of Garden City and to the edge of sanity. From stolen Nazi artwork to a brewing mob war, Clint gets caught in the webs of the underbelly of Garden City. Nothing is ever as it seems in the cement jungle, and the case takes Clint to places he never believed were real.