Shills can't cash chips : & Bedrooms have windows
(Book)

Hardcover

"An A.A. Fair book."

Shills can't cash chips : Money in the bank has always been a persuasive factor in Bertha Cool's life -- and Lamont Hawley represented a lot of it. He also represented an insurance company that smelled a rat about a traffic accident claim -- 30,000 smackers for a whiplash injury. The trouble was the claimant had drifted away -- a beautiful blonde who had been most co-operative and levelheaded. In fact, too levelheaded -- she sounded almost professional. Donald didn't like it. Why should a large insurance company need an outside investigator? But Bertha's greedy little eyes were already registering $$$$ . . . So Donald gets cracking, and in no time is the prime object of Sgt. Sellars' suspicion. For what on earth was a body doing in the trunk of Donald's car?

Bedrooms have windows : It stared as a routine tail -- shadowing an oily hustler who'd been courting a well-heeled matron. But the assignment soon led Donald Lam to a sleazy hotel room with a sexy barfly. And now she's left him high and dry with a pair of corpses dumped in his lap. Suddenly he's the cops' prime suspect. And it'll take some fancy footwork to sidestep the law . . . and the real killer, who intends to leave Bertha Cool partnerless.