Description:In
this private eye world, like many others, Los Angeles is peppered with
heiresses who are being blackmailed for nude photographs and every woman
this private eye meets on the beach is a stripper. Of course, the local
homicide detective thinks the private eye who took a Mickey Finn and
wandered in a daze the previous night offed a nightclub owner he had a
loud argument with. The narrative voice has that wry sense of humor and
carries this novel.