The Spirit #9

A woman named Caressa arrives at the Spirit's door claiming she needs protection from dangerous criminals—but the masked hero soon finds himself caught in an elaborate trap designed by a gang of crooks to manipulate him and Police Commissioner Dolan into destroying each other. With a tangled web of fake duels, invented engagement laws, and blackmail schemes, the Spirit must untangle who's really who before the criminals get what they came for.

Chief Double-Eagle arrives at a Central City hotel with his bear companion Mokwa, but a murder in his suite sets off a chain of deceptions—fake police, a kidnapping scheme, and a genuine mystery that pulls in the Spirit, Commissioner Dolan, and an unlikely hero in the form of a loyal bear. As criminals close in on a valuable discovery and the action spirals from hotel corridors to rooftops and beyond, the Spirit and his allies must untangle who killed the small-time crook and what the criminals are really after.