LAINE FISHER – Fare Prey. Ace Double D-387. First printing, 1959. Published back to back with The Bikini Bombshell, by Bob McKnight. Cutting Edge Books, softcover, as by James Howard writing as Laine Fisher.

   It starts out in fine fashion. Mike Gavin, deliberately down on his luck, finds a dead man in the stall next to his in the men’s room of LA’s Union Station, Needing a coat, he finds several thousand dollars and a ticket to Denver in the pocket. And more.

   The dead man, he discovers, was a hit man, on his way to work. Who killed him, who was his intended victim, and who are he two women busting out of their clothes for Gavin? It’s formula fiction, and it almost works, but not if you ask the right questions.