Cut Thin to Win (A Donald Lam / Bertha Cool Mystery) (Pocket Books #50412)

But I talked her into it, when our client laid twelve one-hundred-dollar bills on the desk. "Fry me for an oyster," Bertha said. "It's your baby and you can change the diapers." less than a week later, Sergeant Frank Sellers announced he was going to take away my license, Bertha Cool announced that our partnership was dissolved, and my secretary was crying on my shoulder. "Donald, please-please be careful." "It's too late to be careful now," I told her. ''I'm dealing either with a crooked lawyer, a jealous boy friend, a scheming daughter, one hell of a wealthy father, or a combination. of any number of them. When you go up against a combination of that sort, you can't • be careful."