Johnny Phelan had two corpses behind him -- "e;Three and you're out, Johnny,"e; the cops told him. "e;Out of this world, real gone cool on a marble slab . . . worth a hot quarter-million bucks in small kills . . ."e; So in the land of masquerade and make-up, Hollywood's toughest private peep ducked wild bullets and wilder babes -- to learn the hard way that -- YOU CAN ALWAYS DIE TWICE!"e;This is hard-boiled mystery with all the necessary elements... Fans of the hard-boiled are likely to enjoy the book."e; -- Reading California Fiction