Description: May Laval was as brilliant as a ten-caratdiamondand just as cold. As the calculating ruler of a social set, sheinfluenced generals, politicians, and big businessmen. Slowly and shrewdly, shelearned the intimate details of everyone's life and recorded the seamy facts ina diary so as not to forget a single sordid detail. One day, May Lavalthreatened to publish her diary. Now it's up to PR man Jake Harrison to findout who killed May andwhile he's at itwhy his wife left him.
Brief description:
William P. McGivern (1919-1982), born in Chicago, grew up in Mobile, Alabama. After quitting high school, he started to write. He served in World War II and then studied in England before returning to the United States, where he worked as a police reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin. After his first novels appeared in the 1940s, he received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In the 1960s he and his wife moved to Hollywood, where he wrote for film and television. Several of his books were made into motion pictures, including The Big Heat and Rogue Cop.
Review Quotes:
"A lively, tightly plotted book."
-- "Marvin Lachman, Edgar-winning author"