There are six novels in Schutz's Leo Haggerty PI series, published in
the 80's and 90's. As luck would have it, I began with the final book in
the series. Nevertheless, Mexico is Forever turned out to be an
excellent book. Can't wait to dig into the rest of this series.
This novel starts out a bit slow in the action category, but that's only
because Schutz deliberately paced this book, building up to a top-
notch climax. In any case, it starts out as a lawyer's investigator starts going through public records to determine if a suddenly-materialized
heiress is legitimate or a phoney. And, this routine investigation takes
Haggerty down the rabbit hole into a world of porn stars, drug busts,
and wicked conspiracies, resulting in deadly action.

Schutz gives us a private eye story and a lot of the motifs from classic
fifties private eye stories like the porn star on the run, the investigator
that just wants to protect her, and a host of bad guys who will stop at
nothing. But what's really great here is that Schutz doesn't try to
rehash or copy old style pulp, but gives us readers an excellent
modern-day detective story.
Really made for a great, compelling read and I highly recommend it. ( )