β Scribed by Fair, A. A. & Gardner, Erle Stanley
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Dr. Hilton Devarest was a whiz at curing patients, but his private life was sick, sick, sick. He lived with a wife who was as warped as she was repulsive, a secretary who enjoyed fun and games with the doctor every morning before breakfast, a niece who believed nice girls finished nowhere, and a nephew whose only means of support was making women happy.
Donald Lam and Bertha Cool got involved with the not-so-good doctor when he hired them to find some stolen jewels. But soon they were in the fight of their lives against a killer who thought murder was the best medicine, and was out to treat them to an overdose of deathβ¦
IT BEGAN quietly with a hunt for a missing secretary and some stolen jewelsβ¦It got complicated with blackmail, the old confidence gameβand murderβ¦It became fascinating with a rich divorcΓ©e and a lonely widowβ¦And it reached a climax when Donald took a long drink from a bottle of poisoned Scotchβ¦
Donald Lam had to think fast and act faster, because it wasβ¦
Double or Quits
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