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Edgar Award nominated for Best Paperback Original, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Special Award

"Top notch hardboiled fare"—Mystery Magazine

Screenwriter and sometime-sleuth Ben Crandel has come to L.A. to make his mark in the movie business. In short order, his young friend Vicky, a former prostitute, is beaten, then murdered in her apartment, after refusing to star in a sex film. The Beverly Hills police grab the closest suspect, Ben Crandel, and charge him with murder one.

Freed on bail, Crandel has to track down the real killer, and finds himself being pushed around like a pawn in a multi-million dollar game of survivor-take-all.