Smoking Out a Killer — Harry Paul Lonsdale

Roll the Stogies...

Once, Nick Chase was a New York homicide detective. But he traded in the grime of the Naked City for a new life as the proprietor of a cigar store called The Happy Smoking Ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For fifteen years it's been paradise. But lately, there's been an unwelcome customer hanging around--called murder...... Roll the Film!

Movie producer Natalie Goodman has just begun filming a flick based on Nick Chase's first case, so she's invited a few people out to her New England island estate to celebrate with a weekend of cigars and murder. But she only planned a murder game, not to become the target of a murderer herself. There's no shortage of suspects: a major investor with whom she had a very intimate relationship, the hot young actor who's very eager to recover an incriminating videotape, the co-producer anxious to gain control of the studio, the writer who was shut out of onscreen credit. All these guests and more have plenty of reasons to smoke Natalie. But Nick better wrap this case fast--because as more bodies keep turning up, it's clear that somebody's bent on snuffing out a few aficionados!