Bertha Cool and her partner Donald Lam have been hired by an New York attorney to find a person in New Orleans. A simple job, but a little unusual since there are P.I.s in New Orleans that can do the job. Money is money and that is a big motivator for Bertha.

They have a description of the girl but no details as to why the search. They locate the girl and notify the attorney. Job done. Or is it?

Seems just a day after they locate her she disappears again! The attorney asks them to find her again. This time there is more to this job...seems a murder is on the hunt for the girl also. This becomes apparent when Bertha and Donald find a dead man in the girl's apartment. Something isn't looking right and Donald is determined to find out what the true story is. Even if it means keeping her away from the New Orleans and Los Angeles police departments.

A.A. Fair is a pen name for Erle Stanley Gardner. Instead of an attorney it is two P.I.s that solve the case. Written in the 1940s it is a good way to go back in time for a bit. ( )

One of the series by Erle Stanley Gardner under the pseudonym A.A. Fair, about Donald Lam, a conventional private detective, and his partner, Bertha Cool, a fat, ugly, unpleasant woman. This one is unusual in being set in New Orleans, where they have gone to search for a woman named Roberta Fenn who vanished thee years before. ( )