The Twelve Dames of Christmas, 2021: #4

Celebrating this festive season with brassy bombshells. The Big Boodle, by Robert Sylvester (Permabooks, 1955). As Dan Stumpf recalls in Mystery*File, this novel—originally published in 1954—is “set in pre-Castro Cuba and deal[s] with P.I. Ned Sherwood’s efforts to disentangle himself from an elaborate counterfeit scheme involving Mexican film stars, Cuban hit-men, ex-revolutionaries and