New York: Delta, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Second mystery in this series featuring an unlikely sleuth - "a curmedgeonly LA gardener, Hiroshima survivor and inveterate gambler." From the time she was a little girl, his daughter was 'gasa-gasa' -never sitting still, always on the go. Now a continent separates them, but when she calls him asking for help, he heads off to New York. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385-337604.