Yellow Dog Party — Earl Emerson

No self-respecting P.I. would ever touch it: four successful businessmen want Thomas Black to track down the four women they've had secret crushes on for years and set up "dream dates" with them. Naturally, Black makes no bones about telling the buttoned-down lotharios he thinks the case is a dog. But he's persuaded by his partner, Kathy, to swallow his pride and pick up the scent.

Then the trail of one of the so-called dreamgirls leads to a very real woman who's been battered into a coma, and what began as a lark quickly becomes an albatross around Black's neck. But it takes a brutal double murder, and the disappearance of another dreamgirl, to make Thomas Black realize he was right in the first place. The case is a dog...and it has a bite that kills.