Present-day San Francisco in a good detective story âThe Million Dollar Suitcaseâ (1922). Jeremiah âJerryâ Boyne, head of the Bankersâ Security Agency is hired to investigate the mysterious theft â from inside a bank â 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 â âone of the best of this seasonâs crop of puzzle yarnsâ. 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.