Killers Are My Meat
Author: first_name: Stephen
last_name: Marlowe
Language: English
Year: 1957

Private Eye Chester Drum is thrust into a dark web of intrigue when he witnesses fellow detective Gil Sprayregan run down by a speeding car.  Sprayregan had given Drum his first big break in the P. I. game, and Drum can't help but take it personally.  As Drum digs into the case, he discovers a spicy Washington sex scandal with ties leading up to someone important at the Indian Embassy.  Will Drum's search for Sprayregan's killer find him looking down the wrong end of a gun with someone else's it