The Careless Corpse Author:Brett Halliday She was too pretty, too young, and entirely too sexy to spend her life cooped up with a couple of spoiled kids. She knew it, but she had no choice. She had a past and was willing to do almost anything to keep it buried. — But when someone began blackmailing her and demanded her body for payment, she called in Mike Shayne. Shayne was interested fo... more »r a lot of reasons -- all of which twisted into the same ugly case of hot emeralds and cold-blooded killings.
Mike Shayne, the private eye who knows all the right moves, finds himself checkmated in a deadly game of high stake murder.« less