Love Finds Max Royster at Christmas or Kissing in the Slush After Sixty: 8 (Max Royster Mystery)

Cold grips Manhattan.The city throws a Unity Holiday Party a dancing street fair to bring all together.I Max 62 meet and flirt with a dark blonde beauty named Peg a barmaid with no illusions left. Her looks and slangy streetwise talk hold me. At my age she makes me smolder and feel 24 again.No matter what it takes I want her for mine.But the plan smashes when a drunken Black man fights with a White rookie cop. The Black man dies and everyone hollers their own ideas about what really happened.Seeing a chance to hit big on a settlement I summon Nancy a hooligan street-fighter with a lawyers ticket. This kind of death means cash.Peg is the only witness to the struggle between the drunken man and the cop. If I can run this I can stop hustling forever.Skip another lawyer Black my nemesis-father figure always scheming hijacks Peg for his reward. His bodyguard Joey beats me in a fight.The FBI and the radical group SAP -Stop Police Action- jump into this case. Trying to out-dance them I go undercover in SAP and live like a radical.Through freezing stakeout nights and bitter dawns I must find Peg and love at Christmas