Fall Guy

The man who said his name was Brown wore dark glasses, a scarf knitted close up to his chin, and a fedora with the brim pulled down all round. The proposition he put to Glenn Bowman seemed straightforward enough -- and to Bowman it seemed as phony as a double-headed coin. But the fee was generous and he was intrigued by the set-up.

Bowman, that inimitable, cynical private investigator, was even more intrigued by Charlotte Calhoun, glamorous step-daughter of the man he had been hired to protect. When a big-time operator called Rafe Gehrig came on the scene with the clear intention of removing Bowman from the land of the living, the case took and even more personal turn.

A ransom note for thirty-thousand dollars, a murder frame-up, the identity of a corpse in a Long Island boathouse -- all contribute to the pace and suspense that Hartley Howard packs into every book in full measure.


Genre: Mystery