Joe Gores: Cons, Scams and Grifts (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
On a Hollywood studio lot, a dancing bear - a Gypsy in a fur suit - does a little sly pickpocketing. In San Francisco, Daniel Kearny Associates are waging a campaign to repossess twenty-seven classic cars from people who are creatively determined to keep them. And in a fortress in the Big Sur wilderness, a rich man vows to steal a collectors' item. Soon the bear, DKA and the millionaire entangle in a twisted plot of betrayal and murder.

When the dancing bear is killed, the police start searching for his beautiful wife, Yana. But Yana is eluding everyone - DKA included - and working a grift of her own.

Meanwhile a helicopter is headed for Big Sur, carrying the greatest scam of all.

Joe Gores: Cons, Scams and Grifts. Orion Books / The Murder Room, ISBN: 9781471917561 (February, 2015), eBook, 3.22 MB (240 p.),£4.99.

Joe Gores: Cons, Scams & Grifts (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
In San Francisco, Dan Kearny Associates raids a classic car dealership, while in Los Angeles, a Gypsy's dying words finger a Gypsy princess for his murder. In Hong Kong, a unique treasure has been stolen by gimlet-eyed L.A. oil tycoon Victor Hess-making Willem Ban de Post, in Rome, plot across continents with his uncle, the King of the Gypsies, to get it back. The mayhem continues when the Gypsies hire DKA to find their framed damsel in distress before the cops do, and a German baron hires DKA to test the defenses at Hess' mountain fortress. But no one is exactly who or what they seem: everyone is conning, scamming, and grifting on all their twisted roads to Rome.

Joe Gores: Cons, Scams & Grifts. A DKA File Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446678694 (July, 2002), 336 p., $12.95.

Joe Gores: Cons, Scams & Grifts (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
Some writers imagine being a private eye in San Francisco; Edgar-Award winner Joe Gores actually lived it. Now the inimitable Gores returns with his first DKA novel in five years. Bringing back the cast of characters from his acclaimed 32 Cadillacs hailed as "a rare treat" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review), Gores combines his trade- mark realism, streetsmart sense of the absurd, and a finely wrought plot in a devastating tale of...

CONS, SCAMS & GRIFTS
On a Hollywood studio lot a dancing bear does a little pick-pocketing on the side. In San Francisco the repo men of Daniel Kearny Associates are on a nonstop campaign to repossess twenty-seven classic cars from twenty-seven people who will go to classic lengths to keep them. And in a fortress in the Big Sur wilderness a rich man vows to steal an ultraprecious collectors' item. Soon the dancing bear, DKA, and the millionaire will entangle in a twisted plot of betrayal and murder.

It all starts when the dancing bear - actually a full-blooded Gypsy in a fur suit - is unceremoniously killed. Now the police are searching for the bear's beautiful Gypsy wife, Yana. At the request of the Gypsy King, whose honorable world of thievery does not tolerate murder, the men and women of DKA also look for her. But the seductive, ever-changing Yana is eluding them all, and working on a new grift of her own.

Meanwhile, the tribe raises cash for a mass pilgrimage to the holy city of Rome - just in time for the Jubilee celebration and a feast of tourists. And while a crime wave is erupting in California, while the cops are distracted by their hunt for Yana and every head is turned in the wrong direction, a helicopter is beating its way to Big Sur, carrying the greatest scam of all.

Joe Gores: Cons, Scams & Grifts. A DKA File Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892965940 (August, 2001), 324 p., $24.95.