It stared as a routine tail -- shadowing an oily hustler who'd been courting a well-heeled matron. But the assignment soon led Donald Lam to a sleazy hotel room with a sexy barfly. And now she's left him high and dry with a pair of corpses dumped in his lap. Suddenly he's the cops' prime suspect. And it'll take some fancy footwork to sidestep the law . . . and the real killer, who intends to leave Bertha Cool partnerless.
"It stared as a routine tail -- shadowing an oily hustler who'd been courting a well-heeled matron. But the assignment soon led Donald Lam to a sleazy hotel room with a sexy barfly. And now she's left him high and dry with a pair of corpses dumped in his lap. Suddenly he's the cops' prime suspect. And it'll take some fancy footwork to sidestep the law . . . and the real killer, who intends to leave Bertha Cool partnerless."@en
"Tento poutavý příběh je jeden z těch, které Gardner napsal pod pseudonymem A.A. Fair a v nichž opustil hrdinu svých předchozích detektivek, Perry Masona, aby spřádal dobrodružství dvou soukromých detektivů-Donalda Lama, mužepřitažlivého zevnějšku, který se nyní právě zapletl do tísnivých souvislostí tří vražd, a Berty Coolové, drsné ženy s mužským vystupováním, která Lamovi pomůže z nebezpečí."
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