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Originally Posted by drjd
Finished You Can Die Laughing. Detective Donald Lam clashes with a lying client, with whom he has a written contract to locate a certain woman. When Donald notifies the client that he has located her, the client drives all the way from Los Angeles to Banning, California, in record time, hoping to speak to the woman. When the client shows up, Donald rips a blanket off the nude, dead, and hideously bloated form of the woman - murdered by her husband and secreted in a dry well. After the client has finished vomiting, Donald tells the man to "come in tomorrow and settle up on your contract". The client ends up paying in full.
Next up : The Time Machine by HG Wells. A re-read after around 35 years. 
PS: Can anyone please suggest me a publisher where I could buy the Doug Selby - The DA series by Erle Stanley Gardner, 9 books' set, at a reasonable price? |
Just finished
The Time Machine by
H.G. Wells. Old classic marvel.
Next up :
The Count of Nine by
Erle Stanley Gardner, another Bertha Cool and Donald Lam novel.