Die Again, MacReady — Jack Livingston

DANGLING Man
It didn't add up, Arnold Pelfrey, the man at the end of the rope, should have been halfway to Acapulco by now. The dead accountant had a quarter of a million dollars of actor Bill Macready's money â€" and if he hadn't taken it with him, who had?
Joe Binney might be deaf, but the cops' suicide verdict sounded fishy to him. To Macready, too, who hired him to track down the go-to-hell money that would let him walk away from a fat part on a prime-time soap. But the search takes a turn for the deadly as Binney follows a trail of corruption from network glitter to big-time gangsters … and he'll need all his remaining senses to survive…