Present-day San Francisco in a good detective story The Million Dollar Suitcase (1922). Jeremiah Jerry Boyne, head of the Bankers Security Agency is hired to investigate the mysterious theft from inside a bank of a suitcase filled with nearly a million dollars in cash. Turns out to be a high spirited man with extraordinary powers of observation and logical deduction from observed facts. The case involves not one, but two locked room mysteries and a murder disguised as a suicide. Rapid action; tense excitement; nicely plotted; satisfying romance one of the best of this seasons crop of puzzle yarns. American writers Alice L. MacGowan and Perry Newberry takes you on a chase around familiar and fictional areas of California and keeps you wondering all the way to the end.