Ihara, Toni. [see Warner, Ralph]

Ingersol, Jared.

The Non-Murder. Robert Hale & Company, 1972.

| setting: San Francisco | find it |

Summary: The disappearance of top-scientist Arden Johnson made the National Security Agency as the San Francisco Police Department to locate him. Inspector Charles Beaufort was given the assignment. He had no trouble finding Johnson, who occasionally went off on periodic drunks, but that was only the beginning...

Irwin, Will. [see Burgess, Gelett]

Isler, Saul.

Babe Ruth is Missing. Bonneville Books, 2011.

| setting: San Francisco | series character: Ovid Kent | tpo | find it |

Summary: San Francisco rare book and autograph dealer Ovid Kent is hired to find a stolen Babe Ruth autograph for the autistic son of a famous trial lawyer.

Issel, Bill.

Coit Tower. Carleton Street Publications, 2019.

| setting: San Francisco (1942) | tpo | find it |

Summary: San Francisco, 1942. Four months after Pearl Harbor. No one knows if the Japanese will invade California and occupy San Francisco. Harlan Winthrop, a high society banker who heads the city's war bonds campaign is stabbed to death. The pro-Axis greeting "RoBerTo" is painted on the wall next to the body in Coit Tower. Is this killing part of a plot to weaken morale by creating even more anxiety among San Franciscans? Police Chief Gerald O'Reilly keeps the murder from the press and the public. He's afraid the dramatic circumstances of the crime could aggravate the deep divisions in the city. Residents are tense and split into factions. Many feel torn between their American patriotism and their Irish, Italian, German, and Japanese ancestral ties. Former Police Commissioner Tony Bosco is pressed into service. Bosco works behind the scenes to find the killer aided by detective Dennis Sullivan and Ruthie Fuller, Chief O'Reilly's special assistant. They work to identify and arrest the killer in a city changing before their eyes. Tens of thousands of war workers, sailors, and soldiers flood into San Francisco; the Army removes the city's Japanese Americans from their homes and businesses; white racism and sexism are challenged by racial justice activists and feminists; the powerful Catholic Church is challenged by the radical Communist Party; the war tests old friendships and political alliances as never before.

Traitors. Carleton Street Publications, 2021.

| setting: San Francisco (1942) | tpo | find it |

Summary: San Francisco, May 1942. Four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The city prepares for a possible attack by Japanese forces in retaliation for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo in April. The German American president of the local America First Committee is shot, execution style, in his Ferry Building Office. Is a radical Zionist group responsible for the murder? Former police commissioner Tony Bosco and detectives Dennis Sullivan and Ruthie Fuller work behind the scenes with Jacob Weiss, the local FBI office's expert on fascist and communist subversion, to identify and apprehend the killer.