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 "e;sure thing"e; 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 . . . "e;The hard-drinking, hard-fisted, quick-thinking private eye!"e; Dayton Journal-Herald