1963 Cool & Lam (A. A. Fair)

Fish or Cut Bait

Client Jarvis Dixon

Case Narrative & Plot Summary

An attractive executive assistant is targeted with anonymous threatening telephone calls, leading Donald to an offshore gambling ship off the California coast.

Donald Lam's Legal Gambit

Donald employs maritime radar position plots and shipboard telephone relay logs to trap the extortionist.

Bertha Cool Dictum
"Fish or cut bait! Either we nail this big-shot for twenty grand or I will shake you till your teeth rattle!"