Nice Fillies Finish Last

Miami PI Mike Shayne is smooth, sexy, and smart as a whip in this irresistibly charming and witty thriller.

The last thing Mike Shayne needs right now is to be drawn into a harness racing gambling scheme by his friend, reporter Tim Rourke. The guy has a special nose for certain kinds of trouble, and Shayne is counting on his current jewelry robbery case to pay out nicely for himself. Even when Rourke’s “sure thing” is sidetracked by the suspicious death of his tipster, a hapless stable hand—Shayne knows better than to get involved—or so he thinks . . .

He changes his mind just in time to see Rourke flying out of the window of a harness driver’s trailer, and it’s not just because Rourke was flirting with said driver’s martini-drunk wife. He was asking too many questions, as reporters often do. With Rourke bedridden in the hospital, it’s up to Shayne to untangle a plot to win big money in that night’s twin double, or die trying. The odds—in the form of desperate men, dangerous women, and double-crosses—are not on his side . . .

“The hard-drinking, hard-fisted, quick-thinking private eye!” —Dayton Journal-Herald