Description: One of our call girls is missingIt sounded like a joke, but the old dame was scared stiff when one of her girls didn't show up for work that night. And this one was her prettiest - and most profitable.''Find her, shamus, '' she said. ''And fast!''''My pleasure, '' I said.My name is Joe Puma. I call myself a detective and I get a hundred bucks a day.The girl's name was Jean Talsman. She called herself an entertainer and she got a hundred bucks a night.The job had delightful possibilities - until some joker started making corpses out of the customers, and I found a few dealers in sudden death camped on my own doorstep.
Brief description: William Campbell Gault (19101995) was a sports fiction author and Edgar Awardwinning crime fiction author. Some of his notable works includeDont Cry for Meand the Shamus Awardwinning title, The Cana Diversionfrom theBrock Callahan series.