**An odd couple of detectives descends on New Orleans to search for a missing heiress in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason.** Bertha Cool is a bulldog of a woman with an attitude to match. Donald Lam is a handsome ex-lawyer who makes up for in brains what he lacks in braw
Owls Don't Blink
β Scribed by Fair, A. A.; Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Book ID
- 115070644
- Publisher
- William Morow & Co
- Year
- 1942
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 358 KB
- Series
- Cool & Lam #6
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Finding the girl came easyβShe was a New York modelβa five-feet-four brunette with the loveliest pair of legs this side of the Mason-Dixon line and the kind of curves that canβt be kept under cover for very long.
Hiding her out proved tougherβDonald Lam wasnβt the only guy who was trying to find this particular gal. Both the New Orleans and Los Angeles police wanted to get their hands on her. And their reasons looked pretty good, viewed from any angle. No matter which way you look at it, two murders in a girlβs life are just too many murders.
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