Collar Robber: A Crime Story Featuring
Jay Davidovich and Cynthia Jakubek
Hillary Bell Locke
Poisoned Pen, May 5 2015, $24.95
ISBN 9781464203367
Transoxana Insurance Company assigns loss-prevention
specialist Jay Davidovich (see Jail Coach) to
insure their client Pittsburgh Museum of Twentieth Century Art wins
their case from claimants demanding remittance based on the Nazis forcing their
late relative to sell a masterpiece. If
they lose, Jay knows his firm would have to cover the $50 million lawsuit.
Also in Pittsburgh, Willy Szulz retains lawyer Cynthia Jakubek (see
But Remember
Their Names) as an intermediary negotiating a deal with the museum
in which he will sell to them proof that the 1938 sale was legit and not under
Nazi duress. At the same Sean McGeoghan
hires Jakubek to persuade the museum’s attorney Tally Rand to annul his Catholic
marriage so that Sean can wed his fiancée who happens to be the counsel’s estranged
wife.
The first merged Davidovich and Jakubek Pittsburgh crime story is
an intriguing drama due to avarice amoral miscreants who loathe everyone and
everything except money. The
tropospheric greed of this support cast dominates the storyline; mindful of
“Money” sang by Pink Floyd: “…Money, so they say is the root of all evil today; but
if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.”
Harriet Klausner
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