Title: Shills can't cash chips
Description: Money in the bank has always been a persuasive factor in Bertha Cool’s life – and Lamont Hawley represented a lot of it.  He also represented an insurance company that smelled a rat about a traffic accident claim – 30,000 smackers for a whiplash injury.  

The trouble was the claimant had drifted away – a beautiful blonde who had been most co-operative and level headed.  In fact, too level headed – she sounded almost professional.

Donald didn’t like it.  Why should a large insurance company need an outside investigator?  But Bertha’s greedy little eyes were already registering $$$$...  So Donald gets cracking and in no time is the prime object of Sgt. Seller’s suspicion.  For what on earth was a body doing in the trunk of Donald’s car?
Subjects: Detective, suspense, American crime literature, insurance fraud, drunk driving, private detectives, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Southern California
People: Donald Lam, Bertha Cool
Time periods: early 1960s