Face Value: a Rachel Gold Mystery / Michale A. Kahn / 253 pages

With Nancy Drew references and plenty of St. Louis locations and celebrity name-dropping, Face Value is a delight!  Attorney Rachel Gold and her Washington University law professor sidekick, Benny Goldman, investigate the alleged suicide of a young female junior associate in a prestigious St. Louis law firm.  Two of her co-workers insist that she was murdered.  If you consider Benny quirky, wait until you meet Stanley Poltkin, an eccentric genius law mailroom clerk with Asperger's.