Give 'em the Ax

Give 'em the Ax by Erle Stanley Gardner (as A. A. Fair), a Cool and Lam mystery, complete and unabridged.

From the cover:

The Rimley Rendezvous was the kind of back-street bistro where a tired businessman could drop in for a pick-up, no questions asked.
Deep carpets and subdued lights gave the place an air of clandestine class. And solicitous waiters catered to the customer's every whim.

All these comforts added up to a steep cover charge, especially since blackmail figured as the major part o...