After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke
Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and
nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn't think twice
when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the
hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over
ten years of cases wondering who would want to beat him into
unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off
with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge,
and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her
ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp.
Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to
bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the
perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of
all time.