In The Steinway Collection, Miles Jacoby runs into Michael Collins' Dan Fortune in Bogie's Restaurant, a local hangout for P.I.s (and their creators, in real life) and asks him for some advice; later he calls Bill Pronzini's Nameless"(referred to by the nickname "Wolf," as in "Lone Wolf") for some info on pulp magazines, and later in the same novel, Jacoby gets some help appraising a pulp magazine collection from a gentleman named Stuart Kaminsky, creator of the Toby Peters series.

Miles Jacoby discovers that his search for a missing witness and Caroline McWilliams' search for her husband's killer are somehow connected

Life's good for Miles He's just been offered a partnership in a major investigatory agency in New York, his Village bar is becoming a popular watering hole, and he's got two cases. First, he's hired to find out who stole Stan Waldrop's act - literally. The standup comic's new routine was on Waldrop's hard disk. Now it isn't. Soon, Waldrop isn't standing up, either. At the same time, a murder suspect is playing dumb - being a stand-up guy and refusing to name names. Jacoby knows who isn't being named and has to find him before the name shows up in the obits. Well, maybe life isn't all that These are not the cases that dreams are made of. They're dirty and deadly and the bread-and-butter of life on the mean streets - even those with comedy clubs on every corner.