The mild little guy was nervous when he walked into the U.S. Customs Office at Miami. He cheered up when he heard that informers didn’t have to testify in court. He said they’d be hearing from him soon. But they never did. A few days later his body was found in Saint Albans, British West Indies, stabbed to death.Was there big money involved? Michael Shayne thought so when he took over the case for the customs’ men during his “holiday” in Saint Albans. The trail introduced him to as fascinating a set of characters as he had ever met — Vivienne Larousse, Parisian dancer, cynical sultry, ready to do anything for an American visa; Paul Slater, trying desperately to conceal his affair with Vivienne from his hard-working wife, Martha; Luis Alvarez, alias the Camel, who was suspected of everything, but who had never been convicted of anything; and Cecil Powys, who claimed he was in Saint Albans to get material for a PhD thesis in anthropology, but who seemed to know a lot more about the usefulness of a straight left to the jaw.Michael Shayne has to be fast on his feet and faster in his thinking to unravel this ingenious tangle of intrigue and passion in a story that moves with jet-speed from one dramatic action to the next and ends with a typical Shayne twist as logical as it is unexpected.
Three Glorious Weeks On A Romantic Caribbean Island Mike Shayne had just come out of the hospital and was taking his three broken ribs on a much needed holiday. But before his plane left Miami’s airport, the holiday turned into a holocaust.
After all, no good citizen could refuse the U.S. Customs. And all they wanted Mike to do was break up a smuggling ring, solve a murder, and at the same time see that the next shipment went through so they’d get credit for the seizure.
Oh, and to really put him in with the gang (and out with the island police), they’d even send out a nice little “wanted” poster on him.
A simple favor. They’d give him time, maybe even a few days if he was lucky, if he wasn’t in jail, if he wasn’t dead ..
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