By Jennifer Crusie
Nothin' like a dame . . . Mitch Peabody was once studying beautiful speedy that the lifetime of a personal detective was once now not all it used to be cracked as much as be. dishonest husbands, suspicious other halves, unsuspecting mistresss -- case after case left him cynical and disappointed. This was once not anything just like the international of tough-talking detectives and smart-mouthed, wonderful dames he'd expected . . . until eventually she walked in the course of the door. all the way down to her stilettos, Mae Sullivan was once a knockout with a deadly physique -- and a deadly family members to compliment it. there has been whatever now not really at the up-and-up approximately her, yet she got here with a case he could not have enough money to refuse . . . and left him with a case of lust like he hadn't had due to the fact that highschool. It did not take lengthy for him to fall for her, hook, line and sinker. yet was once Mae merely attracted to catching the double-crossing crooks who murdered her uncle . . . or did the woman are looking to seize him?
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The book was thick and heavy, about five by seven inches, bound in hand-tooled leather and stamped on the spine with "Lewis" and the date. Mitch flipped it open to the middle and began to read Armand's account of the evening at the opera followed by a night with Stormy. Three pages later, he looked up to see Harold delivering a tray loaded with thick sandwiches, tankards of milk, and chocolate-chip cookies the size of small Frisbees. Mae surveyed him across the table. " Mitch closed the book and dropped it on the table, startling Bob, who raised his head and smacked it on the underside of the tabletop.
The book was thick and heavy, about five by seven inches, bound in hand-tooled leather and stamped on the spine with "Lewis" and the date. Mitch flipped it open to the middle and began to read Armand's account of the evening at the opera followed by a night with Stormy. Three pages later, he looked up to see Harold delivering a tray loaded with thick sandwiches, tankards of milk, and chocolate-chip cookies the size of small Frisbees. Mae surveyed him across the table. " Mitch closed the book and dropped it on the table, startling Bob, who raised his head and smacked it on the underside of the tabletop.
Mitch threw his pencil on the desk. "Okay. " Her eyebrows snapped together. " Mitch shrugged. " She scowled at him for a moment, and he smiled back, impervious. " She opened her purse and took out a checkbook. He watched her scrawl the amount and her name across the check, her handwriting the first uncontrolled thing he'd seen about her. Then she tore the check out and tossed it across the desk to him. Thirty-five hundred dollars. He took a deep breath and tried to look unimpressed. "This is for a week.