MARTIN MEYERS – Spy and Die. Patrick Hardy #2, Popular Library, paperback original, 1976.

   Pat Hardy is an oversexed private detective, living the good life of luxury apartments and bosomy girls. When hired by the niece of a deceased jellymaker to find out how he died, he’s caught in a squeeze of national security and enemy agents.

   It’s all nonsense, of course. The highlight of the affair is a meeting with a fat head of security named Julius Foxx, and his assistant Mr. Archibald. There’s a lot of bouncing in bed and other places, a good deal of padding, and little else.

–Very slightly revised from The MYSTERY FANcier, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 1977.

   
   The Patrick Hardy series —

1. Kiss and Kill (1975)
2. Spy and Die (1976)
3. Red Is For Murder (1976)
4. Hung Up To Die (1976)
5. Reunion For Death (1976)

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Bibliographic Update: In the 1990s, Martin Meyers teamed up with his wife Annette (as Maan Meyers) to write a series of historical crime novels following the lives of one family living in Manhattan over the years.