Hot Dam
by Neil McNeil
The woods had gone wild with murderers, salacious Scots, and kidnapers in kilts!
Let McCall Have the Woods...Let him have raw nature and his bagpipes. As for Costaine, his element was a moonlit balcony - his companion a badly frightened girl.
A tremor ran through her body. "I'm glad you got here when you did," she said. "Lord knows what would have happened to me."
Costaine smiled in the darkness, and as he led her into his room he tried to forget that for the time being he was her hero.
Hey, why hire just one private dick when you can get two for the same price? This is a semi-lurid tale of industrial sabotage in the Scottish hills, pitting the builders of a dam against the locals and their fabled "whisky mine". Our heroes, Tony Costaine and Bert McCall, visit Druid country and land smack in the middle of a clan war. Bert finds his roots, gets drunk and throws a few telephone poles around. Tony gets the girl, but otherwise seems to be mostly along for the ride (so to speak). This one should keep you absolutely spellbound for all of, oh, 2 hours tops.
Other books in the Costaine-McCall series are Death Takes an Option, Third on a Seesaw, and Two Guns for Hire.
- Paul Irvin
Published 1960
Fawcett Publications
A Gold Medal Book.