Work for a dead man

This is the second of two novels (see also The Hollow Woman) featuring one-armed Toronto private investigator with an interesting past and an equally interesting name - John Kenneth Galbraith Jantarro. He finds himself without a client when movie bigwig Alan Laki dies of poisoning. Did his ex-actress wife Camella, arrested on suspicion, do it? Jantarro, who was originally hired to find out why Camella spent over a quarter of a million in barely three months, is intrigued by her and his attempts to clear her lead him to cast of interesting characters, one of whom decides to feed Jantarro to…