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Cool & Lam Mystery #13 (1952)
John Carver Billings II has a story with more holes in it than the surgeons had to sew up in the torso of recuperating LA Mob boss Gabby Garvanza. On the other hand, Billings has also promised Bertha Cool a $500 bonus on top of the usual agency fees. Donald Lam's concerns fall on ears deafened by the sound of Bertha's office cash drawer slamming shut on Billings' initial payment of $300 in cold, hard cash. Not that their client is in any way implicated in the botched Garvanza hit. Billings' style runs more to hitting on attractive women in cocktail lounges. Twice in short order, according to him. "Morrie" was the first pick-up. Billings swears he didn't know she was in fact Maurine Auburn, Gabby Garvanza's girlfriend and a witness to his unfortunate encounter with a lead double-tap. Didn't learn anything about that side of things until days later, when the newspapers reported her mysterious disappearance--after a cocktail lounge pick-up separated her from her companions. But she isn't the missing person Billings wants the agency to find. He claims she ditched him almost immediately, and he then moved on to a twosome, "Sylvia" and "Millie." That's where his tale really starts leaking like a sieve. He says flat-out that he's paying Cool & Lam to deliver Sylvia and Millie as an alibi. It's the gaps between his words that have Donald Lam hearing alarm bells.
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Top Of The Heap (Hard Case Crime) Cool & Lam
October 31, 2004, Hard Crime Case
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0843953527 9780843953527
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