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Bats Fly at Dusk is the seventh in Erle Stanley Gardner's Bertha Cool/Donald Lam series. I actually like this somewhat lesser known series more than Gardner's Perry Mason books - the interplay between Bertha and Donald is really funny. Bats is on sale right now for $0.99 in the US, and it's discountable at Kobo, where coupon code Partners22 is still working as of this morning, and brings the price down to $0.60 - or even less if you have a Kobo VIP membership as well.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VRR528V
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09VRR528V
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bats-fly-at-dusk-1

Spoiler:

A hot-headed PI’s missing person case leads to murder in this mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Owls Don’t Blink.

Bertha Cool and Donald Lam make for an unlikely pair of private detectives. She’s a fifty-something-year-old widow built like a longshoreman with a mouth to match. Donald is a wiry ex-lawyer in his thirties with a face that’s a magnet for fists. Fortunately, he’s whip-smart. His brains have gotten him and his partner through the toughest of cases. However, with World War II on, he’s recently enlisted in the navy, leaving Bertha flying solo with her next client . . .

A blind beggar is searching for a young lady who disappeared after being hit by a car. Bertha’s certain she can handle a missing person case on her own, especially after her client asks her to break a hundred-dollar bill. But when her search yields murder, Bertha is suddenly flying blind. Now she must quickly locate a killer before everything comes crashing down.