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THE CORPSE WAS NO BARGAIN AT ALL by Hampton Stone

THE CORPSE WAS NO BARGAIN AT ALL

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Pub Date: Oct. 11th, 1968
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Neighbors can be a hazard in Manhattan, particularly if you have to sit and watch a husband almost murder his wife on the next terrace, during the cocktail hour yet. Mac is just an ordinary old Assistant D.A. when this happens to him in a case which soon has one presumably dead spouse and a substantial inheritance passed on to wife and lover. But oddly after the fact arrive two thugs and two gorillas (one real. . . one monkey suit) in a discotheque aptly named The Big Banana. The plot is slick and slippery all right and it's the fancy footwork that keeps you guessing.