The Naked Detective

For the first time Laurence Shames, the comic master of Key West Crime, has written a first person novel. His new voice, his new hero, is Pete Amsterdam. Peter never intended to become a P I. He blames his accountant for the whole sorry mess. It was he who said that no P I makes money, it was he who said that Pete should plough some of his profits from selling something trivial that only made life more annoying into a business that even the I R S didn't bother with.

And lazing naked in the hot tub in the garden of his house in Key West it had, briefly, seemed a pretty good plan to P I Peter Amsterdam - even his name fitted after all. But then the blonde walked in, a situation ripped from the pages of the most cliched of detective novels, and before you could say "pass me that towel" he was on a case that would overturn his life. After nearly ending it.