Shakedown: A Joe Puma Mystery

By: William Campbell Gault

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Synopsis: A corrupt P.I. will do anything to make a buck and save his own skinJoe Puma didn&’t kill Albert Target, but he is happy the pimp is dead. A small-time creep whose niche was recruiting wannabe actresses, Target perjured himself for Puma&’s sake, and the detective was afraid he might decide to talk. The cops know that Puma&’s crooked, but they can&’t prove a thing. He&’s a slick operator with an itchy trigger finger and a flimsy moral code—two things he&’ll need if his next case is to end as happily as his last. Fallen starlet Jean Roland comes to Puma with a plan to blackmail her lesbian lover&’s father—a dangerous scheme that would put Puma off if Roland weren&’t the most stunning woman in Los Angeles. Joe Puma likes money and he likes being alive, but he likes women even more. He&’d die for a girl like Jean Roland—but he&’d prefer it if someone else died first.