Cool and Lam

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SHE PLAYED THE ODDS -- AND LOST! When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster...
Turn on the Heat
The day she told her husband he could go his own way, were it blonde or brunette, she became a...
Gold Comes in Bricks
This was one case when Bertha Cool didn’t see much of her partner, Donald Lam. This time he was...
Up for Grabs
Bertha Cool was in a flap. The distinguished Mr Homer Breckinridge had been waiting twenty minu...
Spill the Jackpot
Have you ever met one of those one-armed bandits standing innocently against a wall — waiting f...
Shills Can't Cash Chips
Money in the bank had always been a persuasive factor in Bertha Cool’s life — and Lamont Hawley...
Cats Prowl at Night
First there was Everett Belder. He seemed to have a round-trip ticket from the frying pan to th...
Owls Don't Blink
The French Quarter of New Orleans — where everything has happened, where anything can happen......
Beware the Curves
Unfettered, unfiltered, unorthodox Bertha Cool and Donald Lam have four of the least likely and...
Bedrooms Have Windows
It started as a routine tail — shadowing an oily hustler who’d been courting a well-healed matr...
All Grass Isn't Green
It all started with Milton Carling Calhoun, a wealthy young tycoon, who hired Bertha Cool and D...
Bats Fly at Dusk
First there was the blind man. He “saw” a great deal for a sightless man. Bertha Cool had n...
Give ’Em the Ax
DONALD LAM is home from the wars and up to his neck in the hard-hitting, swift-moving murder my...
The Bigger They Come
A sporting preparation to the intelligent mystery fan: don't open this door when you want to pl...
Cut Thin to Win
When Donald Lam and Bertha Cool cut in on a deal, they CUT THIN TO WIN. The man’s name was Clay...
Kept Women Can’t Quit
The Cool-Lam combo is beating it out again in a lively, ingenious mystery that will be music to...