Bats fly at dusk

✍ Scribed by Fair, A. A.

• Publisher: Dell
• Year: 1942
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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Where there’s a will, there’s a murder

“Know all men by these presents that |, Harlow Milbers, of the age of sixty-eight years, being of sound and disposing mind .. .”

That’s how the will began—and the trouble started for Bertha with an assortment of chiselers, con men, and cops, all tangled up in a net of murder until Donald Lam untied the line to snare a killer.

A.A. FAIR, creator of the top detective team of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool, and ERLE STANLEY GARDNER, creator of Perry Mason, are one and the same. And the same exciting brand of mystery and action is to be found in every Gardner-Fair story.

He was looking for a girl. A lively young thing, about 25 or 26, 106 pounds, hot and single.

With those vital statistics,. thought Bertha Cool, every other man in town would. be looking for her too. Then the client began to peel off C notes, and Miss Cool began to have visions of hot profits. Only her financial visions became a deadly nightmare and the hottest thing in the case turned out to be Bertha Cool— wanted by the cops for burglary and suspected murder.