Nice Fillies Finish Last (The Mike Shayne Mysteries)

By: Brett Halliday

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Synopsis: 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 &“sure thing&” 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 . . . &“The hard-drinking, hard-fisted, quick-thinking private eye!&” —Dayton Journal-Herald