Phantom Angel
by David Handler
When it comes to tracking down teen runaways there is no private investigator in New York City better than street-wise Benji Golden. His newest client is Morrie Frankel, the last of the great Broadway showmen. Morrie's current extravaganza, a lavish $65 million musical adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is the biggest unfolding disaster the Great White Way has ever seen. Rumor has it if he doesn't find a deep-pocketed "angel", or investor, soon, he might go down and take the production with him.Morrie tells Benji he thought he had found such an investor in hedge fund billionaire R.J. Farnell, who promised to keep the teetering production afloat. But Farnell and his $12 million vanished. Benji tracks Farnell to his girlfriend, Jonquil Beausoleil, who tells him he's never going to find R.J. because there is no such person. Morrie Frankel made him up. But no sooner does Benji quit the case than Morrie is found gunned down on 42nd Street. Now Benji is...