When Mac tries to help a friend collect an unpaid bill, he gets more than he bargained for...including a corpse #17 in the Mac detective series "Mac is one of our best private eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers " -- Bill Pronzini "Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He is reluctant to use either his gun or his fists,...