Masuto

Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force -- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways artery-clogging fast food...and brutal murders. Here collected for the first time are the two adventures that launched the popular crime-fiction series created by Howard Fast: In Samantha a Hollywood film producer has been murdered -- the first in a series of violent deaths perpetrated by a killer calling herself Samantha. Masuto must race the clock to stop her before more blood is shed. In The Case of the One-Penny Orange a noted stamp dealer and his assistant are murdered and the one clue that could bring a killer to justice is an 1847 postage stamp from the island of Mauritius -- one of the rarest most famous stamps in the world.