The Naked Detective — Laurence Shames

The gumshoe bit wasn't Peter Amsterdam's idea. His accountant made him do it. But Pete should have figured that with a comfortable tax dodge in the sunny Florida Keys comes the inevitable knockout blonde looking for help. Sometimes life can be like the movies. Unfortunately for Pete, it isn't black and white.

There's more to the blonde than meets the eye. And fast on her stiletto heels is a hot shot Key West thug, his possibly duplicitous nympho daughter, a goon in control of the island's gambling boats, and a stone-cold corpse whose unexpected appearance has stripped Pete down to his last nerve. All he has to work with are what's left of his wits, a gun that's never been fired, and the dashing hope that he can survive this crime long enough to solve it....