Dead Heat Author:Richard S. Prather Me, Shell Scott, interested in the stock market? I wouldn't know a put or take option from a convertible debenture. — But this big industrialist had paid me handsomely to find out who was buying in a certain stock that should have been worthless, and why. So I took a nice, round, easily remembered figure-Doody's-and hied me out to consult the o... more »nly Big Board I knew anything about, the tote board at Hollywood Park, hoping I wouldn't come up with the shorts.
Oddly, this broke the case wide open. I killed a hood whose shot mostly missed me. And Soon everyone, including the fuzz, was off and running-in all directions.« less