Michael Collins: Red Rosa (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
WHAT SECRETS COULD A BAG LADY HIDE?
Red Rosa, the bag lady Lenin, foraged in the trash and garbage of New York City, gave out pamphlets against long-forgotten evils and had no past or future that anyone cared about.
She'd been shot twice.

Who shoots an eighty-year-old bag lady? And why? Because she was a card-carrying member of the Communist party? Because she put her nose in everyone's business?

Dan Fortune starts digging and discovers that Red Rosa's past was not so obscure, nor her present so forgettable. And whoever wanted Red Rosa dead, isn't through. Dan Fortune is next on the list...

Michael Collins: Red Rosa. In the alleyways of New York, random violence is alway carefully planned. Harlequin Books, ISBN: 0373970994 (February, 1989), 299 p., $3.95.