Six Seconds to Kill

Mike Shayne #60

by Brett Halliday

Camilla was a high-class beauty, but she was on her way down. She didn't care how many drinks or men she had-didn't' care about anything except killing the Attorney General of the United States.

Then suddenly she got her chance. It was going to be a fail-safe assassination, perfectly staged and carefully planned to the last detail-which meant the appearance of Mike Shayne at the moment of death...

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

AKA David Dresser
Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 - February 4, 1977), primary pen name of Davis Dresser, was an American mystery writer, best known for the long-lived series of Mike Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write. Dresser wrote non-series mysteries, westerns and romances under the names

Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne.