The Probability Broach

Prometheus Award: Best Novel winner (1982).

In 1980, L. Neil Smith turned the science fiction field upside down with the publication of THE PROBABILITY BROACH. Set in the (then) near future, it's the story of Win Bear, a Denver detective on the trail of a murder. But the trail leads him to another America, where things are different. In a world of zeppelins, intelligent apes who can vote and no federal government. Win solves his mystery and things are never the same for him again.