Bada-Bing, Bada-Tomb!

When pet food magnate and apparent mobster Vince Mazetta engages film buff and P.I. Dave Beauchamp to investigate threatening letters, Dave feels obligated to help. But then Vince disappears and those close to him turn up dead.

Aided by the voices of old movie stars he chronically hears, Dave faces danger on every corner in the company of a Central Casting goombah, Elvis Presley, and even his own parents-whose secrets threaten to destroy Dave's newfound equilibrium.

Bada-Bing, Bada-Tomb is another comic, suspenseful journey through Southern California's wacky side that proves you don't have to be crazy to live in L.A.-but it helps