Adventures of a Fighting Girl Michaela Morris in Dark Black Gold — John Howard Reid

Michaela Morris is the general manager of a Country Club in a leading city, Jarrico Junction, in the South. The Club is staging an important Golf Tournament, but Michaela is under pressure not only from a rival attraction that is being staged at the ball park, but from illegal campers who have erected their tents on a small but vital part of the course. So she befriends the newly elected District Attorney. He is under other pressures, particularly from the city's leading citizen, a highly eccentric and somewhat recluse multimillionaire, who insists that visitors remove their shoes before coming into his presence. The millionaire's first wife died under mysterious circumstances while he himself was abroad. His new wife is frightened to death of him. His name is Newman Nesdorf, but he bears two nicknames: Next-Door Nesdorf and Whiplash Nesdorf. In fact, as our heroine, Michaela Morris, comments at one stage, Nesdorf is not content unless he has two of everything: two wives, two nicknames, two bodyguards, two. . .