Written by ANDERSEN GABRYCH Art by BRAD RADER Cover by LEE BERMEJO Frank Grissel is a hard-knuckled private eye
- & a deeply closeted homosexual
- set in the very real world of 1953 San Francisco Aided by his long-suffering secretary (and sometime live-in lover) Loretta Grissel search for a runaway girl winds up with his becoming a suspect in a string of gruesome murders The case takes twists & turns through the Golden Gate greasy underbelly the beguiling arms of a Chinese shipping heiress (and smuggler); an unexpected reunion with the daughter he abandoned long ago; the loss of Loretta to the sadistic clutches of the high-powered Colonel; & finally to the horrifying gender-bending truth