MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice: John J. MacShayne is a colorful sleuth who works as a trouble-shooter for a major casino in Las Vegas. MacShayne, still in the process of working off his debt to the casino, is assigned b... more »y the hotel to keep an eye on superstar entertainers "Ozzie & Cindy Evans" and Senator-elect Franklin Carter and his wife Joan. After an onstage fight between Ozzie and Cindy, Ozzie is found murdered in his dressing room and Cindy is the prime suspect. At first, MacShayne believes Cindy's guilty, but while investigating an assassination attempt on Franklin Carter, evidence appears that would prove Cindy's innocence. Before MacShayne can clear Cindy of the charges, he has to track down the mysterious assassin. Using a houseboat as a hideout for Cindy, Franklin Carter, Joan Carter, and himself, MacShayne lures the assassin and in the process discovers who the real target of the gunman's bullet is! MacShayne: Winner Takes All: Vegas. The word itself conjures up images: casinos open through the neon night, one-armed bandits and long-legged women, midnight confessions, giggling ingenues with romance in their hearts, and desperate men with crime on their minds. High rollers, hookers, hustlers, millionaires, repo men and cops...these are all colors on the easel called Vegas. Too much fast living has caught Jack MacShayne on life's short end. His latest binge at the gaming tables has knocked him up with a big-time debt. He accepts the offer he can't refuse and becomes in-house detective for the casino that holds his marker. Jack MacShayne mixes it up with artful con-women, endangered senators, corrupt police commissioners, assassins, kleptomaniacs, and famous night-club singers. And, of course, through it all there's that Big Apple stuck in the middle of the desert...Vegas.« less