CASE FILE – MURDER, THE BULLFIGHTER AND THE SYNDICATE OF SIN

Name: Honey West

Occupation: Private eye

Age: Over 21

Description: Taffy-colored hair, blue eyes

Identifying Marks: Small birthmark inside of right thigh

Warning: Usually armed — the nerviest, curviest, brainiest, sexiest private eye ever to pull a trigger, or toss three gangland bozos overboard singlehanded.

Residence: Los Angeles.

Hi, I'm Honey West, licensed PI. I can't help it if I've got curves and my name is "Honey," can I? Nature gave me the first and my father the second. Then he was murdered and I took over his detective agency to catch his killers. But right not I'm not trying to catch anyone—instead, everyone is trying to catch me.

The syndicate sent a squad of killers, who stripped me naked and left me hanging from a tree to die. When I took a swim to cool off, someone tried to sink me for good, by loading me down with lead weights from the muzzle of a gun. Next, some guy in a plane tried to machine gun me from the heavens. Now, cops are looking to fit me for a nice seat in a metal chair—the kind where they flip a switch and its good-bye, Honey! See, I've been framed for murdering a stripper. I've been one—and I sure wouldn't kill one! Who proclaimed it "Kill Honey West Week," and didn't tell me? I don't know, but I sure intend to find out! And when I do, I'll find out who killed my Matador boyfriend. And I'll make them pay for it. You can count on that.

Set in, and touched with a bit of, the High-camp 60's, Honey West shows that sometimes the best man for the job is a woman! Honey is a full-fledged pulp fiction detective. Nervy and curvy, she battles her way a maze of deception, chicanery and murder in every book.

"Fans of the hard-hitting and noirish crime and detective fiction that rose to prominence in the 1950s, literary nephews (and nieces) of Philip Marlowe and redheaded step-children of Mike Hammer, will enjoy this gritty and yet still lighthearted foray into crime." —Online 5-star review