Dear Mystery fan- As soon as wealthy young Essex read the latest warning note he knew that the sinister, closing in upon him. "Essex: the time ears when you must pay your debt. You have a choice- fifty thousand in small, unmarked bills or your life! Instructions follow. Don't try to escape- The Eye!" This was the third threatening letter Essex had received under startling circumstances from the mysterious menace called "The Eye". He had found the first note pinned to his pillow in a New York hotel. The second appeared in his own wallet. Now here was the third - which he discovered in his hand upon awakening in his own bedroom on his Florida estate. In desperations, Essex hired Bill Crane, private investigator, to apprehend the author of those warning notes. Crane found the Essex estate overrun with a queer assortment of guests, including an inebriated actress, a prize fighter, a strip tease queen, an exotic butler, "The Eye" succeeded in casting the grim shadow of uneasiness over them all. The vicious situation comes to a climax when Bill Crane suddenly finds himself trapped in a locked bedroom with a murder woman. The Dead Don't care, by Jonathan Latimer, leading exponent of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, gains momentum with every page and roars on to a surprising and shocking conclusion. - the publisher.