“Spencer Dean” was a pseudonym for Prentice Winchell (1895-1976). The Frightened Fingers was the first novel in his nine-book “Don Cadee” series of store detective novels. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jay de Bekker, Dexter St. Clair, Grant Stockbridge and Stewart Sterling.
Don Cadee, as head of security for a large New York department store in the 1950s, is always on the look-out for pick-pockets, thieves and swindlers...but now, as he investigates the deaths of two women, he has to take on a gang of ruthless killers.
"Fast-paced and fascinating. In the midst of the breathless, and sometimes slightly wild, action you'll be absorbed by the intricacies of a store detedrtive's job." New York Times