1961 Cool & Lam (A. A. Fair)

Shills Can't Cash Chips

Client Harry Nelson

Case Narrative & Plot Summary

An insurance adjuster suspects an auto accident injury claim is an organized fraud ring, but Donald finds the claimant dead in a roadside ravine.

Donald Lam's Legal Gambit

Donald uses insurance claims actuary tables and orthopedic X-ray radiograph comparisons to break the scam.

Bertha Cool Dictum
"Shills, swindlers, and insurance chiselers! Donald, bite them before they bite us!"