An Edgar Award-winning AuthorAlex Night is a P.I. who wants to become a novelist like Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler. But his clients have other ideas. When Alex is hired to drive and bodyguard Cynthia Alderdyce, who is wearing a couple million dollars' worth of jewels to Walter Annenberg's New Year's Eve party in Palm Desert, the limousine is pulled over by a pair of bogus cops. Alex is slugged, the jewels are grabbed, Alex recovers the jewels, is wounded again - and goes back to becoming a mystery writer. Available only in Mystery 5.