JAMES HADLEY CHASE

Hand Me A Fig Leaf

     Colonel Parnell, the boss of Parnell Detective Agency, Paradise City,  receives a letter from an old frog farmer, Frederick Jackson, who reminds him that his son, Mitch Jackson, served in Parnell's regiment in Vietnam, and had posthumously won the Medal of Honor for bravery.  And now, Mitch's son, Johnny, had disappeared. Dirk Wallace, one of Parnell's operators, is given the assignment, which looks simple enough, until Wallace arrives at Searle, a small gossip-ridden town, where Frederick Jackson has his frog farm. Dirk learns that Frederick Jackson had been murdered, his farm ransacked and someone was showing an unhealthy interest in buying the frog farm. The canned frog legs turn out  be an efficient means for transporting drugs...  Dirk also comes to know that Mitch had not quite been the  hero as made out to be,  but a degenerate drug peddler. A search is launched for the missing grandson, Johnny.....but is Johnny a boy or a girl??