Word: lam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BATS FLY AT DUSK - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). Private Detective Bertha Cool, minus her diminutive partner, Donald Lam, though absent from scene, supplies the right answers to both murders, a spot of forgery, and other villainy. An exceptionally clever plot, much lusty humor - and Bertha Cool, saltiest of female sleuths...
...convention of the publicity-wise California Models' Guild, a dark-haired, shapely movie bit player named Leslie Brooks wriggled into an evening gown of gold lamé with an extremely low backline just a few inches above indecency...
DOUBLE OR QUITS-A. A. Fair-< Morrow ($2). Accidental poisoning of a California doctor looks queer to pint-sized Donald Lam, who clears it up in his own rough, ready and staccato fashion. The plot is more intricate than in earlier Lam tales; the solving just as good or better...
This year the fabrics (good and traditional) are American-made except for the lamés. And the designers had to depend on their own ingenuity...
SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...