Smoke Detector

Description for SMOKE DETECTOR by Eric Wright:

No one cared that Cyril Drecker was dead. Except Inspector Charlie Salter... because murder was his business. Salter already knew someone deliberately set the smoky fire that killed this owner of a second-hand store. He soon found out that Drecker's double dealing gave a lot of people the burning desire to kill him. But Salter still didn't know why someone finally did. And motive wasn't all that was missing. Suspiciously absent, too, were a suspect's gay lover, an elderly Japanese man, and a mysterious box of Oriental woodcuts... something that might prove a little art can be a very dangerous thing...

This is #2 in An Inspector Charlie Salter Novel.