Guilty As Hell — Brett Halliday

Corporate espionage is no day job for PI Mike Shayne as he roots out secrets in the professional and personal lives of Miami's movers and shakers.   To the owner of a family-operated chemical company, Mike Shayne has the perfect skills to find the leak in his close-knit workplace. The company has a revolutionary no-peel, no-blister paint in development, but their research has fallen into the hands of a business rival who plans to announce their new paint product in four days.   In the middle of the fray is a knockout blonde headhunter who helped the confidential information change hands. Looking for which executive had the most to gain from her scheme has Shayne going from a corporate duck-hunting weekend to the seedy set-ups of blackmailers and everything in between. And he's about to discover that secrets aren't the only things that leak from the boardroom, throat-cutting and backstabbing do too.   The hard-drinking, hard-fisted, quick-thinking private eye! —Dayton Journal-Herald