Bats Fly at Dusk (Digital Original) (The Bertha Cool and Donald Lam Mysteries)

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

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Synopsis: A hot-headed PI&’s missing person case leads to murder in this mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Owls Don&’t Blink. Bertha Cool and Donald Lam make for an unlikely pair of private detectives. She&’s a fifty-something-year-old widow built like a longshoreman with a mouth to match. Donald is a wiry ex-lawyer in his thirties with a face that&’s a magnet for fists. Fortunately, he&’s whip-smart. His brains have gotten him and his partner through the toughest of cases. However, with World War II on, he&’s recently enlisted in the navy, leaving Bertha flying solo with her next client . . . A blind beggar is searching for a young lady who disappeared after being hit by a car. Bertha&’s certain she can handle a missing person case on her own, especially after her client asks her to break a hundred-dollar bill. But when her search yields murder, Bertha is suddenly flying blind. Now she must quickly locate a killer before everything comes crashing down. &“No one has ever matched Gardner for swift, sure exposition.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“The best American writer, of course, is Erle Stanley Gardner.&” —Evelyn Waugh