Jelly's Gold: A McKenzie Novel (Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie Novels)

Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the 30s, McKenzie is intrigued. In the early 20th century, St. Paul, Minnesota was an open city a place where gangsters could come and stay unmolested by the local authorities. Frank Jelly Nash was suspected of masterminding a daring robbery of gold bars in 1933, but, before he could unload it, he was killed in the Kansas City Massacre. His gold, they believe, is still somewhere in St. Paul. But they arent the only ones looking. So are a couple of two-bit thugs, a woman named Heavenly, a local big-wig, and others. When Berglund is shot dead outside of Ivys apartment, the treasure hunt turns unexpectedly deadly. McKenzie is looking for more than a legendary stash from seventy-five years ago, hes looking for a killer and the long hidden truth behind Jellys gold. Intrigued by tales about a 1930s gangster's lost cache of gold, retired police officer and unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie discovers that several unsavory people are competing to locate the thirty-million-dollar treasure