{"product_id":"the-detective-and-dorothy-day","title":"The Detective and Dorothy Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Detective and Dorothy Day\u003c\/em\u003e blends detective noir with historical fiction, set in eastern New York in 1975. The story follows Sy Johnson, a Manhattan private investigator hired by a labor union to probe the murder of upstate chemical tycoon Jack Williams. The accused killer is a local union president, but the deeper Sy digs, the murkier the case becomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis investigation leads him to the Catholic Worker farm in Tivoli, where he meets seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Day, the renowned writer, pacifist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. There he also encounters James, a black Vietnam veteran battling addiction, and his sister Roberta, a singer Sy met the night before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe murder case expands into a web of environmental pollution, labor unrest, high finance and corruption, complicated further by Sy's romantic entanglements and close brushes with death. From barrooms to a ballroom, and from Brooklyn's backstreets to quiet waters and woodland, Sy finds himself confronting not just killers, but his own conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he unravels connections between five murders and a world poisoned by greed and guilt, his unlikely bond with Dorothy Day challenges him to seek justice and redemption in a new light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Detective and Dorothy Day\u003c\/em\u003e is both a gripping thriller and a meditation on morality in a world on the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1662968116\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781662968112\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Conner, Robert C.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Gatekeeper Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gatekeeper Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Feb 2026)","offer_id":46356824359109,"sku":"9781662968112","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781662968112.jpg?v=1781310810","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-detective-and-dorothy-day","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}