内容简介：
Bart Miller, owner of Morning Investigations of Sacramento, gets involved with an insurance scam when a new client finds herself named in a policy that will pay her husband a million dollars after a double indemnity clause kicks in next Wednesday, Valentines Day. Queen Antoinette Margarete Goodrich is convinced that she only has five days to live and Bart falls for the case hook, line and sinker. Queen Ann drives a classic '59 Corvette and Bart tools around in 'Bessie', a '49 Studebaker truck, the ultimate 'spy machine'. He soon falls in with Lieutenant Hurrain's gang at the Sacramento Sheriff's Department, who's investigating a Corvette car theft ring. Bart's office is full of various contraptions, gadgets and gismos. He lives in a renovated fire station, has a fetish for the unusual and things with motors. He loves his .45 Peacemaker, likes the numbers, spiked coffee, liquor, talks to his subconscious, lives the life of leisure and truly enjoys his women. This established gumshoe is something else His cell phone played 'I'm in the Mood.' "What's happened Rainbird? Are you aware it's 4: 24 in the Morning?" "There's been an accident Bart, involving a '59 'vette, we found your contract in Ms. Goodrich's purse. Thought I'd call."