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What, you ask, is a Fred Fitch? Well, for one thing, Fred Fitch is the person with the most extensive assortment of artificial receipts, phony charges of sale, and counterfeit sweepstakes tickets in the Western hemisphere, and perhaps in the complete world. For another thing, Fred Fitch could be the only NEW YORK citizen in the 20th century to buy a money machine. When Barnum said, "There's one blessed every minute, and two to take him," he didn't find out about Fred Fitch; when Fred Fitch was born, there were two million to take him. Every itinerant grifter, hypester, bunk musician, short-conner, amuser, shearer, short-changer, green-goods employee, pennyweighter, engagement ring dropper, and yentzer going to NEW YORK considers his trip imperfect until he's also hit Fred Fitch. He's type of the con-man's version of Go: Forward Fred Fitch, acquire 200 dollars, and proceed.What happens to Fred Fitch when his long-lost Uncle Matt dies and leaves Fred $300,000 shouldn't eventually the ball in a pinball machine. Fred Fitch with $300,000 is similar to a mouse with a sack of catnip: He's more likely to attract the wrong kind of attention. Add to this the fact that Uncle Matt was murdered, by person or folks unknown, and this someone now seems decided to murder Fred as well, combination in two daffily charming beauties of totally different types, and you have a perfect set up for the busiest fictional hero since the well-known one-armed paperhanger. As Fred Fitch opportunities across the NEW YORK landscape-and sometimes skyline-in his conferences with cops, con men, beautiful young girls, and (maybe) murderers, he assumes a few of the loonier areas of a Dante with out a Virgil. Take one part comedy and one part suspense and tremble well-mostly with laughter.
