Date with a Dead Man

She was rich but not rich enough, married but hungry for lovers, and would happily liquefy herself into oblivion at the pop of a cork. Mike Shayne was the solution to all her problems if she mixed her business and pleasure right: a simple concoction of bribery and bed.

But Shayne wouldn't buy it. All he wanted were some fast answers to some easy questions, not the least important of which was why a not-nice girl like that had made a date with a dead man.

MIKE SHAYNE, THE PRIVATE EYE WITH TOP FORM, DIVES DEEP IN A CASE OF MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING PERSONS AND A COUPLE OF MILLION BUCKS.