# Double or Quits

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- Book: [Double or Quits](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-a-fair/double-or-quits) ([Double or Quits.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-a-fair/double-or-quits.md))
- Authors: [A. A. Fair](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-a-fair)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-883-5
- Published: 2014-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Dr. Hilton Devarest was a whiz at curing patients, but his private life was sick, sick, sick. He lived with a wife who was as warped as she was repulsive, a secretary who enjoyed fun and games with the doctor every morning before breakfast, a niece who believed nice girls finished nowhere, and a nephew whose only means of support was making women happy. Donal Lam and Bertha Cool got involved with the not-so-good doctor when he hired them to find some stolen jewels. But soon they were in the fight of their lives against a killer who thought murder was the best medicine, and was out to treat them to an overdose of death ...