One bodyguard, thirty days: how long would you survive?
Marty Cockren, ex-newspaper man and rookie private detective, was offered the chance to earn big money acting as bodyguard to beautiful young widow Eve Chounet.
She was due to inherit a huge fortune from her late and unlamented business tycoon husband - but only if she remained alive for thirty days, whilst delivering his portrait paintings to each of his companies.
But the principals of some of those companies were hell-bent on her murder - together with Marty himself, and his lawyer girlfriend Nancy Summers, who had rashly elected to help him.
The chase to stay alive led from a mansion in Los Angeles to the desert along the Mexican border and could only end in one way - a very dead heat!
'Realistically told... carefully controlled, fast paced' - Kirkus Reviews
'The cleverest plot I've seen this season... You'd better read it' - The New York Times
'Enormously readable. Watch out for any new book by this author' - Morning Telegraph
Richard Wormser (1908-1977) was an award-winning American author best known for pulp fiction, crime and Westerns. Originally from New York City, he moved to California to become a rancher in the 1930s, before eventually settling in Arizona with his wife.
Genre: Mystery
Marty Cockren, ex-newspaper man and rookie private detective, was offered the chance to earn big money acting as bodyguard to beautiful young widow Eve Chounet.
She was due to inherit a huge fortune from her late and unlamented business tycoon husband - but only if she remained alive for thirty days, whilst delivering his portrait paintings to each of his companies.
But the principals of some of those companies were hell-bent on her murder - together with Marty himself, and his lawyer girlfriend Nancy Summers, who had rashly elected to help him.
The chase to stay alive led from a mansion in Los Angeles to the desert along the Mexican border and could only end in one way - a very dead heat!
Praise for Richard Wormser
'Realistically told... carefully controlled, fast paced' - Kirkus Reviews
'The cleverest plot I've seen this season... You'd better read it' - The New York Times
'Enormously readable. Watch out for any new book by this author' - Morning Telegraph
Richard Wormser (1908-1977) was an award-winning American author best known for pulp fiction, crime and Westerns. Originally from New York City, he moved to California to become a rancher in the 1930s, before eventually settling in Arizona with his wife.
Genre: Mystery
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