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ISBN: 9780857683816 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0857683810 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (165 p.)
Publisher: New York : Hard Case Crime, 2004, c1952.

Fair, A. A. 1889-1970 (Author).

Summary: When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency who tracks down the two women with whom his client claims to have spent the night, and the client declares the case closed. But it's not. Something about his client's story doesn't add up, and before Donald knows it, he's dug up connections to a mining scam, an illegal casino, and a double homicide--plus an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune, if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in on it!