1956 Cool & Lam (A. A. Fair)

Beware the Curves

Client John Ansel

Case Narrative & Plot Summary

An old murder conviction in an oil-boom town six years ago is questioned when an author writing a true-crime article hires the Cool & Lam agency to find a key missing witness.

Donald Lam's Legal Gambit

Donald challenges the legal doctrine of dying declarations and unearths an unrecorded surveyor field book.

Bertha Cool Dictum
"You little runt, every time you take a case involving a blonde with curves, we end up in the police line-up!"