By Henry Kane
"A leggy torch singer of bawdy ballads with an eye-opening dance regimen to check ... a girl jewellery fashion designer with an exclusive—deadly—clientele ... A candy younger bride with a drawerful of illicit letters that her husband by no means wrote ... And murder—three lush man-traps combined up within the homicide of a fourth—all set to blow up as Peter Chambers, fiction's such a lot hard-boiled private-eye, dodges bullets on a homicide path from the lush retreats of excessive society to after-hours Greenwich Village!"
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Additional resources for Martinis and Murder (Peter Chambers, Book 1)
He left, and Curtis settled in his chair. “I imagine, Mr. Chambers, that i'm concerned about a blackmail try. approximately 3 weeks in the past, I obtained a mobilephone name from someone who stated he wanted to speak about a enterprise transaction with me. He requested that we manage an appointment. I prompt that he name at my workplace at a definite day and time, yet he acknowledged that that used to be impractical. He acknowledged he was once from out of city, that he had a set on the Pennsylvania, that he anticipated to be on the town just a day or , and that he used to be staying as regards to his phone as he anticipated numerous extremely important cellphone calls and that he couldn't come up with the money for to overlook them. He advised that I name upon him. He inspired me that the topic of our dialog will be of important obstacle to me. ” “Yes,” I acknowledged. “So you went. ” He held his decrease lip crookedly among his enamel for a second; frightened grooves spoiled his mouth. “Mysterious, strange or no matter what — I went. I didn’t quite be aware of even if it was once enterprise or own and that i didn’t ask. My own lifestyles isn't with out sure advanced difficulties, which i'm hoping to give an explanation for to you later; and it can be that that used to be the governing impulse for my really fast compliance. ” “All right,” I acknowledged a bit sharply. “You went. What identify did this chook offer you? ” “Joseph Pineapple. ” I dropped the highball glass. My pants acquired rainy, yet usually the pebbled carpet. I brushed at my pants and collected the glass and picked up the ice cubes and went again to the bar and made one other drink and stood there leaning at the bar. Curtis stared at me with out approval. a glance of perplexity firmly settled on his grave light face. greater than that. It was once a type of wildly subdued appears to be like of baffled remorse one will get whilst one reveals that he has picked himself a type of nutty bastards to do enterprise with. I stated, “Sorry. You shocked me. ” “I shocked you,” he acknowledged. He quite seemed scared. I acquired sore. “Now glance, Mr. Curtis, it used to be my purpose to claim not anything approximately final evening, approximately your wife’s dying, that kind of factor, until you selected to carry it up. It’s screwy to me besides, a guy’s spouse will get killed final evening and at the present time he’s at paintings in his workplace, calm as huckleberries and bitter cream in a crimson plate. okay! It occurs a Joseph Pineapple used to be killed final evening. And it occurs he was once killed by way of a bullet from an identical gun that used to be used in your spouse. And he used to be present in the selfsame taxicab that was once interested in that different subject. ” I drank a bit of the hot highball. “That’s element one. element is that Joe Pineapple is an strange identify. So if this guy is similar guy that contacted you; why, that’s the top of that right away. He’s lifeless. There’s now not any want that you should take humans into your self belief, or to rent your self deepest detectives. That’s why I spilled my drink and smirched your carpet. finish of speech. ” I watched him. He went numerous colours paler, with a mild infiltration of a truly unbecoming pressure of chartreuse. numerous occasions he murmured, “I see, I see, I see,” after which he stated, “Forgive me.