Chip Harrison

The ever-randy hero of Lawrence Block's No Score flees New York City for South Carolina, where a job in a whorehouse gives him an opportunity for lots of loving and lots of trouble. Flat broke and sick of freezing to death in New York City, the permanently aroused Chip Harrison hops on a bus to warmer climes, landing in the quiet hamlet of Bordentown, South Carolina. With his usual clumsy charm, the aspiring lecher backs his way into a job running security at the local whorehouse. In no time he is playing cards with the madam, chasing the girls, and keeping trouble away from the door. The only thing is that trouble has a way of finding Chip Harrison.

When young, broke, and single Chip Harrison finds a bus ticket to Bordentown, South Carolina, he knows it was sent by the hand of fate. It's his way out of wintry New York City, and a way into the warm welcome of Bordentown's sheriff! But before long, Chip charms his way into the sheriff's good graces and into the arms of Lucille, the preacher's daughter. Even Chip should see he is headed for trouble with a capital "T" in another furiously funny caper by Edgar Award-winning Lawrence Block.

Chip Harrison has finally secured himself a job, acting as the man-about-town for the corpulent detective Leo Haig. And it's on the dangerous streets of New York that Chip brings home his first case, one in which five beautiful sisters are being systematically murdered by a killer with a diabolical design. Three of the Trelawney women have already been bumped off, and now Chip is cozying up to the remaining two, and investigating a couple of other nefarious relatives with motive on their minds. The solution is a tantalizing brainteaser that only Edgar Award–winning Lawrence Block could have written.

It's a crime that Times Square dives aren't private investigator Chip Harrison's usual hangouts. Tulip Willing is the star attraction at the Treasure Chest-and also Chip's newest client. It seems she wants cover for a mysterious stranger … who's been scaring her out of her clothes. As he waits for his client to finish her set, Cherry Bounce, another dancer at the Treasure Chest, is shot dead during the performance. Chip finds himself on the trail of a killer who's eager to trap the street-wise detective-and strip him of his livelihood forever.