Slice of P.I.: “Death of a Dastard”

(Part of a series celebrating fictional private eyes.)



Death of a Dastard, by Henry Kane (Signet, 1963), with a cover illustration by Jerry Allison. Here we have just one of more than 30 novels Kane produced starring “private richard” (his distinctive spin on “private dick”) Pete Chambers, a fashionable, man-about-metropolis New Yorker with a wolfish eye for women.