The Big Goodbye — Peter Chambers

When gorgeous Juanita Morales arrived in Monkton City looking for bright lights and glamour, she found herself mixed up in an elaborate racket and finally murder...Mark Preston didn't mind so long as women like Dixie Whitton and Sylvia Le Fay kept cropping up. He minded more when a fat man stuck a pistol in his face, and ice-picks in the back became the things to wear. Preston was on thin ice, because Rourke of Homicide was muttering about jail...And of course there were still more dames.