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  • MediaDB / «On Thin Ice" by Erle Stanley Gardner: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 1965 / A high-ranking client came to the detective agency of Bertha Cool and Donald Lamb - the deputy director of a large financial and insurance company. He is skeptical and believes that Bertha and Donald are unlikely to cope with his case, especially since it involves a woman who, according to the client's description, is “young, willful, stubborn, independent, brash and ungrateful”; and most importantly, she is his daughter. The girl ran away from home and got involved with some shady characters. Well, such cases are just Lam's thing, and difficulties only drive him further. But the insurer goes even further and says that the case is so sensitive that it may have to hide some facts and evidence - that is, break the law...