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Narrated by Los Angeles insurance salesman Walter Huff this book is about an insurance salesman who is too drawn in by beauty to ignore the red flags that pop off in his head.
Huff pitches Mr. Nirdlinger about car insurance. Soon after Mrs. Nirdlinger (Phllys) asks him privately about life insurance. Huff knows what this means. Nothing good. Phllys wants her husband dead and to collect on the insurance. Huff and Phllys construct a plan to off the unsuspecting Mr. Nirdlinger.
Huff is able to game Mr. Nirdlinger into beleaving that he was originally overcharged on his car insurance, take a cash refund and cut a new check for the corrected price of "car insurance". What he didn't know is that he just bought life insurance. With a double indemnity for a death that happens on a train.
Huff and Phllys plan Mr. Nirdlinger's murder and execute the plan almost perfectly. No witnesses to the murder and plenty of witnesses who saw Mr. Nirdlinger arrive to the station, get on the train, and smoke on the back deck before he falls off to his death. Except one of Huff's coworkers named Keyes. Keyes smells something funny and treats it as a murder he can't prove.
Huff and Phllys now have to deal with the outcome of their almost perfect insurance fraud.
Very enjoyable and I liked this more than Postman.
