β Scribed by Baynard Kendrick
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A shooting outside a Manhattan bar leads a blind detective to a health spa with a dark secret in this mystery by the author of Make Mine Maclain.
Late one summer night, Tubby Severn is enjoying a drink at the bar of the Broadway Palace Hotel when a bullet sails past his head--only six inches away. Lots of people might want Tubby dead, but he's not sure why the cops have arrested his best friend, Ted Yates, a blind army veteran. It seems the gun involved in the shooting was Ted's service pistol, which was also used in a murder two years ago--and then vanished. Now, with Ted sporting a straitjacket in Bellevue, Tubby turns to Duncan Maclain for help.
Maclain agrees to take the case but soon discovers he's dealing with more than one suspicious death and a peculiar place called Hardesty's Health Farm, where they help clients shed pounds. As Maclain begins making connections in this twisted puzzle, he and his partner, Spud Savage, must quickly nab...
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**A shooting outside a Manhattan bar leads a blind detective to a health spa with a dark secret in this mystery by the author of *Make Mine Maclain*.** Late one summer night, Tubby Severn is enjoying a drink at the bar of the Broadway Palace Hotel when a bullet sails past his headβonly six inches a