Temple Barr, publicist
extraordinaire, is itching to bring off her most dangerous and exciting
assignment, helping to launch an endeavor that many a Vegas showmen have
dreamed of: a Las Vegas mob museum/casino.
While city
powers-that-be hem and haw over doing an official project on the
subject, the Family Fontana plans to connect two hotels with a "Chunnel
of Crime" featuring an underground speakeasy, a fast "ride" through
Vegas crime history by Gangsters custom limo sevice, and other fun
attractions.
Temple's grand scheme to do a live "opening Bugsy
Siegel's vault" media event built around a huge safe found buried
underground produces a two-day-old body wearing white tie and tails.
With
Temple's magician-counterterrorist ex-lover, Max, gone missing and her
new fiance, radio shrink Matt Devine, in Chicago for week-long media
gig, Temple must depend on "the Vegas Strip Irregulars," a posse of
cats, to solve murders old and new that smack of mobs vintage and all
too contemporary. Success, or failure, could cost Temple her life, and
all nine of Louie's.
