A Grain of salt on the princes’ Islands

In this third installment of his comic mystery series, Lawrence Goodman brings back characters from the earlier volumes—private detective Ibrahim Gül, police inspector Osman Ilik, amateur sleuths Everett and Lily Blum, among others—and introduces Tod Perez, a Las Vegas gambler on the run, who searches for a fortune stashed in Istanbul by a secretive Turk with a shady past. The zany plot—with Tod disguised as a woman—takes the reader into the worlds of high-stakes gambling, spiritualism, and Istanbuls seamy underworld. When Tod has nearly reached his goal, the mob closes in and the plot spirals to a wild and unexpected conclusion.

In this third installment of his comic mystery series, Lawrence Goodman brings back characters from the earlier volumes—private detective Ibrahim Gül, police inspector Osman Ilik, amateur sleuths Everett and Lily Blum, among others—and introduces Tod Perez, a Las Vegas gambler on the run, who searches for a fortune stashed in Istanbul by a secretive Turk with a shady past. The zany plot—with Tod disguised as a woman—takes the reader into the worlds of high-stakes gambling, spiritualism, and Istanbuls seamy underworld. When Tod has nearly reached his goal, the mob closes in and the plot spirals to a wild and unexpected conclusion.