Walter Satterthwait: Wall of Glass (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
A conversation with a jewel thief draws Croft into an insurance investigation
It is April in Santa Fe, and a blizzard draws near. Private investigator Joshua Croft sits bored in his office, hoping he'll get home in time to avoid the storm. Just before closing, a man enters, wearing jeans, a Stetson, and a hard-eyed squint that tells Croft he wears the outfit for work, not fashion. A friend of the cowboy's possesses of a haul of stolen jewels, and wants Croft's help selling them back to the insurance company. Croft humors the cowboy, fishing for information on the heist, but the stranger leaves without giving away the scheme. The next day, the cowboy is found stone-cold dead, riddled with bullets.

The owners of the stolen jewels hire Croft to find their missing property. Along the way he dips deep into Santa Fe's underground, looking for the killers of the cowboy who came in from the cold.

Walter Satterthwait: Wall of Glass. A Joshua Croft Mystery. mysteriouspress.com, ISBN: 9781453251256 (April, 2012), 366 KB, ca. 216 p., $.9.99.

Walter Satterthwait: Wall of Glass (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Joshua Croft wasn't looking for trouble. It just managed to find him. While Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft wasn't exactly comfortable fencing a stolen diamond necklace, he did have a living to make. But when the small-time cowboy who'd offered him the deal was murdered, Croft knew he was into something hotter than hot ice.

In the posh section of Santa Fe, raw earth is as chic as sushi, and the trail of dirt Croft follows leads to even dirtier secrets, kinky sex, drugs, and double dealings - and a second murder that strikes just a little too close for comfort.

"In the tradition of Rockford, Sam Spade and Mike Hammer, comes now Joshua Croft, Santa Fe's answer to the private investigator. And the protagonist is flip, cynical, sarcastic and funny... Satterthwait takes the prototype private investigator on a spin in and around Santa Fe." -- Albuquerque Journal

Walter Satterthwait: Wall of Glass. A Joshua Croft Mystery. University of New Mexico Press, ISBN: 0826328873 (March, 2002), 254 p., $9.95.

Walter Satterthwait: Wall of Glass (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Joshua Croft wasn't looking for trouble. It just managed to find him. While Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft wasn't exactly comfortable fencing a stolen diamond necklace, he did have a living to make. But when the small-time cowboy who'd offered him the deal was murdered, Croft knew he was into something hotter than hot ice. In the posh section of Santa Fe, raw earth is as chic as sushi, and the trail of dirt Croft follows leads to even dirtier secrets, kinky sex, drugs, and double dealings -- and a second murder that strikes just a little too close for comfort.

Walter Satterthwait: Wall of Glass. A Joshua Croft Mystery. Worldwide, ISBN: 0373832656 (December, 1993), 250 p., $3.99.