First prize

First Prize introduces Chess Hanrahan, a "thinking man's Mike Hammer." When a brilliant young novelist disappears after winning a major literary award, Hanrahan turns up more than murder in this sharp-edged, provocative tale by the author of the popular Sparrowhawk historical novels. This is the first of a series of Hanrahan novels from Perfect Crime. The author, who has a wide following among fans of Ayn Rand, has created in Hanrahan the first explicitly "Aristotelian" detective, with a penchant for unraveling moral paradoxes.