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"Private Eyeful" 1960 KANE, Henry

KANE, Henry

[191] pp.

T.B. Boardman & Company Limited

1960

7 1/2" x 5 1/8"

Jacket design by D. McLaughlin

"Private Eyeful" is a 1959 hardboiled mystery novel by Henry Kane, featuring the "gorgeous private eye" Marla Trent. The book's plot involves a convict who takes a detour on his way to the death house to help a man, and the investigation eventually becomes entangled with a sexy model and a colleague's wife.

Author: Henry Kane

Protagonist: Marla Trent, a private investigator who is as smart as she is attractive

Series: "Private Eyeful" is the first book in the Marla Trent series

Plot: A convict on his way to death row goes off-course to clear a man he doesn't know. The investigation leads the private eye into a web of rumors involving affairs with a model and another man's wife.


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