Become a PRIVATE DETECTIVE! Learn from Hal LIPSET CRIME

311 page book in VGC++.

TRUE CASES from the Confidential Files of Hal Lipset, America's Real-Life Sam Spade!

THE POLLY KLAAS KIDNAPPING-MURDER CASE...
JEWELRY HEISTS...MANIACAL CULT LEADERS...SEX
INTRIGUES... THE SENATE WATERGATE COMMITTEE...
SAN FRANCISCO PRIVATE EYE HAL LIP SET HAS
COVERED THEM ALL.

THE GOOD DETECTIVE

"A DELIGHTFUL, BRAIN-TEASING ROMP FAST-PACED, RIVETING...A JOY
TO READ." -St. Petersburg Times

THE GOOD DETECTIVE is Patricia Holt's much-acclaimed
biography of the life and crimes of Hal Lipset, America's real-
life Sam Spade-one of the most respected and controversial
detectives in the world. During a career spanning almost fifty
years, Hal Upset has been involved in some 20,000 cases:
serving as chief investigator for Senator Sam
Ervin's Senate Watergate Committee; sleuthing
for Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple, whose follovlers
cbmmitted mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana; chasing jewel
thieves'from San Francisco across Europe and snaring them in
the Canary Islands; conducting surveillance and "snooping"
jobs, as well as kidnapping, break-ins and ambulance-chasing.
On a shoestring, Upset and his wife Lynn started the first
husband-and-wife detective agency in America and soon became
experts in all phases of electronically recorded evidence, legal
and otherwise. They handled every kind of case, sometimes
solving ones that stymied the police. Bugged cigarettes,
hatbands, and ballpoint pens were all part of their portfolio-as
was working for revblutionaries and such cult.

leaders as the Reverend Moon of the Unification Church,
Charles Dederich of Synanon, and Werner Erhard of EST.

Filled
with a wealth of compelling true stories, THE GOOD DETECTIVE
takes us into an exciting and rarely explored world, laced with
greed, jealousy, passion, deception...crime and punishment
more fascinating than the best detective fiction!

"Full of revealing intelligence. Holt has succeeded in lighting up a world as
strange as fiction, yet as down-to-earth as the mom-and-pop operation down
the street." -Pico Iyer, correspondent, Time..

Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix

Introduction: True Detective 3

Part I: The Art of Listening In

1 The Electronic Witness 16

2 "May I Help You Undress, Dearie?" 34

3 The Bug in the Martini Olive 55

Part II: Learning the Ropes

4 The Broker 74

5 A Real Pipperoo 92

6 The Detective as Salesman 103

Part III: The Jigsaw Puzzle Theory

7 The Lying Client 120

8 The Case of the Runaway Jewel Thieves 134

9 The Case of the Elusive Entrepreneur 150

Part IV: Mean Streets

10 Sexual Snooper 172

11 The Kidnapper 185

12 The Cult Detective 207

13 Dirty Money 235

Part V: The Adversary System of Justice

14 Perry Mason and Paul Drake 246

15 The Case of the Boy with the Toy Gun 262

16 His Anchor 276

Part VI: Free Will versus the System

17 The Case of the Negfectful Police 296

Epilogue: Professor "Lips Set" Looks Forward 306.

Very special!