The King's Collar

May 1929: Disgraced at Harvard and disowned by his father, Charlie Bohannon falls to the underworld’s fringe. Befriended by a former sailor Punchy, Charlie begins a business buying and selling smuggled items. He discovers a statuette in a speakeasy bar, similar to one stolen from his dean who says return it and graduate. Before Charlie can retrieve the artifact, it vanishes and the man who took it is found murdered. The dean points the finger at Charlie, whose ironclad alibi doesn't deflect the pressure to find the statuette.
Through a series of misadventures, Charlie and Punchy become members of the Solomon mob. Solomon demands that Charlie find the missing statuette and its legendary counterpart, the jewel-encrusted King’s Collar. Charlie, Punchy, and bold Beacon Hill socialite Olivia search while dodging rivals for the Collar, one of whom gives Charlie a week to turn it over or face death.
When Olivia and Punchy are kidnapped and the King’s Collar is the ransom, Charlie’s time is running out. But finding the Collar is no guarantee that he—or his friends—will survive.