CASE FILE – MURDER AND THE MASKED STRIPPER Name: Honey West Occupation: Private eye Age: Over 21 Description: Taffy-colored hair, blue eyes Identifying Marks: Small birthmark inside of right thigh Warning: Usually armed — the nerviest, curviest, brainiest, sexiest private eye ever to pull a trigger, or toss three gangland bozos overboard singlehanded. Residence: Los Angeles. Hi, I'm Honey West, licensed P.I. The men call me the "private eyeful", and I've blackened a few eyes for saying it, too. But right now I'm lying on the beach in Malibu living the California dream, next to Kirk, a drop-dead gorgeous hunk. But, wouldn't you know it, the dream becomes a nightmare and the hunk is shot through with a speargun and drops dead in front of me! By the time I verify he is non-compos-mentis, whoever fired the speargun is long gone. Before I can say "nobody murders one of Momma Honey's boys and gets away with...

CASE FILE – THE BROADWAY MUSICAL MURDERS Name: Honey West Occupation: Private eye Age: Over 21 Description: Taffy-colored hair, blue eyes Identifying Marks: Small birthmark inside of right thigh Warning: Usually armed — the nerviest, curviest, brainiest, sexiest private eye ever to pull a trigger, or toss three gangland bozos overboard singlehanded. Residence: Los Angeles. Hi, I'm Honey West, Hollywood PI, and I was way out of my element in a New York blizzard. But an old friend was producing a Broadway musical about moi (I never should have said "yes"), and wanted me to fly east as a consultant (so I couldn't say "no"). Now I was up to my knees in snow and up to my neck in trouble. With my figure I am used to being chased by men, but I didn't expect it on my first night in town, especially one with a gun full of bullets. Then I found one of the musical's beautiful young actresses in my hotel bathtub,...

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Honey West is the nerviest, curviest P.I. in Los Angeles-or anywhere else for that matter. She's a cross between James Bond and The Avengers' Emma Peel-a girl detective with the sleuthmanship of Mike Hammer and the measurements of Marilyn Monroe. This Girl for Hire is the first in a series of darkly funny and innuendo-laden crime novels originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. In this one, Honey finds herself playing strip poker with four murder suspects...and a deck that's as stacked as she is!