Dead Ringer

by P. Moss

It's 1967, Moe Dalitz erstwhile mobster owns Las Vegas's Desert Inn as a legit cover for his other businesses. Everyone believes Howard Hughes is holed up in the penthouse of the D.I. But Moe's tired of legit and a Mormon gang led by a filthy-rich used car salesman wants in. What ensues is a gritty and hilarious game of one-ups-manship, and dirty tricks. And a washed up lady lounge singer just might know who really lived on the 9th floor of the Desert Inn. "Dead Ringer" was first published in The Perpetual Engine of Hope, as part of the Vegas Valley Book Festival Antology 2010, published by CityLife Books.

16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2012

About the author

P Moss is an author whose books and short stories offer a twisted view of life away from the spotlight. He is also a musician and songwriter whose band Bloodcocks UK, the only American band never to play in America, recently completed a seventh sold out tour of Japan. A film noir and pulp fiction enthusiast, he is also a prominent name in the nightlife world as owner of the popular Double Down Saloons in Las Vegas and New York City, as well as Frankie's Tiki Room in Las Vegas.