Kill All the Young Girls (The Mike Shayne Mysteries)

By: Brett Halliday

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Synopsis: When a movie shoots in Miami, local PI Mike Shayne gets a behind-the-scenes look at the deadly price of Hollywood fame. Larry Zion, the long-time chairman of Consolidated-Famous Pictures, is speeding down a Miami highway when a woman in a red convertible pretends to shoot him, running him off the road and putting him in the hospital. But she&’s not just any woman—she&’s the actress Larry passed over to star in his latest blockbuster movie—the pirate film that could make or break his company. With a stockholders&’ meeting looming, and an outside group trying to take over the company, bad publicity is the last thing Consolidated-Famous Pictures needs. Which is why Larry&’s son lures PI Mike Shayne out of semi-retirement to keep the volatile actress occupied before the meeting. All Shayne has to do is stay by the side of a beautiful woman for thirty-six hours. Piece of cake. Until she&’s blown up right before Shayne&’s eyes, and he&’s drawn into a world of fleeting fame, sordid sex, and twisted obsession . . . &“The hard-drinking, hard-fisted, quick-thinking private eye!&” —Dayton Journal-Herald