Ed Noon is a typical pulp era private eye operating out of an office so small he called it the mouse auditorium. In later novels in the series, he actually moves to a more normal sized office and hires a secretary, Melissa. But he's still the same wisecracking Joe. In still later novels in
the series, he becomes a super spy and meets space aliens. But in this book, the second Ed Noon book in the series, he's still the original swashbuckling PI.

One of the best things about Noon books is Avallone's wild phrasing and crazy descriptions. The book begins with a new client rushing into Noon's office: "She was a brunette edition, pocket size, but her binding was not what you usually find in bookstores." "Dames," Noon explains,
"especially the good looking ones, were always getting into trouble. This was a very good looking one. That meant only one thing to me. A lot of trouble."

Well, he wasn't wrong on that account. When told that this is June Wexler and that her twin sister is April Wexler and June is scared of their chauffeur Anton, Noon wants to know if Anton's surname is
March. Too bad June doesn't think he's funny. He knows who they are now. The rich spoiled heirs to a tremendous
fortune who were in all the gossip columns. Some bullets go flying and Noon observes that: "what was left of
Anton wouldn't interest anybody but his mother or maybe a ghoulish
morgue attendant." No one else writes quite like this.

Indeed, when Lieutenant Mike Monks wants to hear June's side of the story, he finds out that "She was one of those dames who can't talk sitting down. Either that or she knew she had a figure and she wanted to make the most of it ( )