The Faberge Egg - Amos McGuffin, Bk 4 Author:Robert Upton When PI Amos McGuffin learns that his ex-wife and young daughter have disappeared from their San Francisco apartment, he at first suspects nothing more ominous than an unannounced holiday jaunt. However, when he discovers a yellowed newspaper clipping left behind recounting the senseless killing of his partner years earlier by a crazed German Wo... more »rld War II veteran named Otto Kruger, his antennae begin to vibrate - fearfully. And when he learns that Kruger (whom McGuffin put away eighteen years before) was recently released from a hospital for the criminally insane, he realizes that the nightmare of every cop, judge and prosecuting attorney in America has for him suddenly become real. Otto Kruger has kidnapped his ex-wife and daughter and left only an eighteen-year-old newspaper clipping as a ransom note.« less