Cover artist identified as Cliff Miller, a commercial artist who’s done hundreds of paperback covers (mysteries, science fiction, Nancy Drew), but so far I haven’t been able to find a website for him.

BANTAM paperback reprint, April 1990. Hardcover edition: Charles Scribner’s Sons, February 1989. [Fourth in the Leo Haggerty series.]

      From the back cover:

“A SIZZLER.”    — Publishers Weekly
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         SWEET JANE vs. THE BAD GUYS

   Escorting a young rock singer from the airport to his Washington hotel and guarding the door of her penthouse for the night sounds like a piece of cake to Detective Leo Haggerty. Sure, Jane Doe of the Pleasure Principle has gotten some death threats, but what celebrity hasn’t? To Leo, this small job sounds like sweet financial gain with a minimum of pain — and Jane’s real easy on the eyes.

   The headstrong songwriter does have some real enemies, though. For starters, the guys in her bad are furious that she won’t sell out and sign a major-label contract with them — but that’s no reason to kill somebody, is it? When the cushy job explodes into violence, Leo has to put his life on the line — or Jane might make the hit list before she even puts an album out.

         THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE
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“The Things We Do for Love is a credit to … the hard-boiled private eye tradition. The prose is lean .. .with colorful touches along the way.”     — The Philadelphia Inquirer.