Book - New York Dead

Another silly, very entertaining airplane read. Funny and easy reading. Also the turning point for the main character.

Cop Stone is recovering from the shot knee, stumbles, stumbles onto a jumper, who disappears while riding in an ambulance. Desperate to close the case, the dept's ready to pin it on the gay lover, but Stone objects, so they put him out to pasture. Luckily he has a friend at a prestigious law firm who wants to hire him on as the go-to guy for oddball jobs, with the promise of practicing cases too. Thus he gets to dig into the bizarre disappearance and finds something he really hadn't bargained on.