Patty Dallas lies dead on a Santa Barbara dock, her party dress hiked up around her hips. Her body wrapped in seaweed, the target of hungry seagulls and sand flies. Private detective Matt Jagger, a disgraced and cashiered Los Angeles cop, pulls her dress back down with the hook which now replaces a bullet-riddled left hand. It's the frenzied 1930's, where anything and everything can happen. Hollywood parties and passions run wild, extravagant weekends and gambling ships are the rage, and there's a growing force of bad cops who willingly do much of the dirty work and clean-up for the Mafia in Southern California. The corpse Jagger's identifying is his ex-wife, and he knows he's next...on the hit list of the Los Angeles mob and that city's corrupt police force for uncovering an extortion plot and murder by fellow officers. But there's a newer, bigger crime in progress...one to take over the entire motion picture industry...and killing Jagger has become part of the bad guys plan to win it all "Dead Eyes" and successive novels in Matt Jagger series are written and illustrated much in the style and form of the pulp fiction stories of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, when hundreds of pulp titles dominated the adult hard-core reading market in America, written by famed authors including Raymond Chandler, Walt Coburn, Louis Lamour, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dashiell Hammett, Paul Gallico, and Max Brand.