Harry *Butch* Angel [SOT] ~Hiatus~

Harry
ANGEL

I'm small-time private eye in 50s Brooklyn, Harold Angel. I barely make enough money ta keep my head above water. One day, I receive dis phone call from some lawyer named ,Weinsap informing me dat one of his clients seeks my advice. I meet the eccentric Louis Cypher in a Harlem Church and I receive my assignment: Cypher asks me ta track down Johnny Favorite, a man with whom Cypher had made a contract, a man who never paid off his debt, and now, it seems, a man who has vanished from the face of da earth. Apparently, after being submitted to a mental hospital as a result of a shellshock war trauma, Favorite disappeared without a trace.
Louis Cypher: My client.
Even his name is some dime store joke.
While I'm not overly interested in the case at first, I accept mainly for the pay Cypher offers me for the job. Going through the files of the hospital, I quickly discover dat Johnny was released from the asylum years ago. Latching on to a few loose ends, I manage ta track down people Johnny knew but everyone I talk to or seek out winds up dead, their corpses mutilated.
Me and Margret Kruzmark. Johnny Favorite's Girlfriend. Johnny Favorite's Daughter, Epithany. Her mother was Johnny's secret lover, Evangeline Proudfoot. I start to worry that the case might be a little too big for dis hard-luck gumshoe; when Cypher offers a much larger sum, my enthusiasm for the case is restored. Not even the discovery dat I'm the main murder suspect can keep me from trying to solve dis case.