Description

From Perry Mason-creator Erle Stanley Gardner comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool.

Cool & Lam are back, in the case Raymond Chandler called “about the best of the series since the first two…perhaps since the very first.” Hired to prevent a poisoning that hasn’t happened yet, Donald Lam tries playing mind games with a prospective killer, only to wind up with two poisonings to solve – and two dangerous femme fatales, not to mention an adulterous dentist, a questionable real estate scheme, and a scientific system for betting the horses that someone might kill to keep secret…

Publisher Review

"Another ebullient dash down Memory Lane with Los Angeles private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam...great fun." - Kirkus Reviews "[T]ightly written, fast-moving, funny in the right places, and entertaining from page one right to the end." - Deadly Pleasures Magazine