Ken Shannon #6

Ken Shannon finds himself caught in a murder at the Sunset Highway Bowling Palace when his bowling lesson with Dee Dee is interrupted by a tense loan-collection visit from Monk Sattler—a meeting that turns violent before Shannon breaks it up. When the owners go missing and a body turns up in the pin pit, what looks like a suicide quickly unravels into something far more sinister, with three suspects who all stand to gain from Ray Wiley's death now that an aircraft factory is set to transform the worthless alley into valuable real estate. Shannon has to piece together who really pulled the trigger before the case gets pinned down for good.

Detective Ken Shannon's favorite secretary and partner, Dee Dee Dawson, calls in a desperate plea for help from a hotel room, sending Ken on a frantic search through the Cosmopolitan Hotel where nothing adds up—no registration, no room thirteen, and a terrified manager with blood-stained initials. Racing against time and his own rage, Ken discovers the trail leads to a docked yacht and a familiar face from his past: Johnny Larrone, the racketeering fugitive he thought was long gone.