Avon, New York, 1981, 1st/1st.  ISBN 0-380-78741-5.  MMPB, 256 pages.  Wraps show a bit of edge and cover wear, some age spotting, reading creases on spine.  Binding tight; outer block tinted red; number stamped on bottom edge.  Hospital and book store stamps on blurb page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘Underneath the golden glitter, Southern California spawns a land of sleaze, sickies, psychos, and wiseguys.  Ex-cop Fritz Brown, sometime private-eyes, full-time Beethoven buff, sees it all as he walks the shady side of L.A.’s streets.  Now he’s got a client named Freddy “Fat Dog” Baker, a caddy who flashes too much cash…and a gut feeling this case could change his California dreaming into a technicolor nightmare.  Arson, pay-offs, and porn are all part of Fat Dog’s game.  But so is his classy cello-playing sister.  Brown’s desire to make some beautiful music with her gets him knee-deep in the blood-money running on the greens…and murder threatens to turn his song into a funeral dirge.’ (from rear wrap)