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SHE PLAYED THE ODDS #x13; AND LOST! When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi #x13; and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency. Donald tracks down the two women with whom his client claims to have spent the night and the client declares the case closed. But it#x19;s not. Something about his client#x19;s story doesn#x19;t add up, and Donald can#x19;t resist the temptation to keep digging. Before he knows it, he#x19;s dug up connections to a mining scam, an illegal casino, and a double homicide #x13; plus an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune, if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in on it!

One of the best-selling authors of all time, Erle Stanley Gardner’s greatest creations include crusading attorney Perry Mason (star of more than eighty novels, not to mention the long-running TV series and TV movies) and the hardboiled detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, who appeared in more than two dozen adventures of their own.