Named for the elegant beach road where aristocrats sport, Southampton's fabled Gin Lane is now plagued by new neighbor and broadcast legend "Cowboy in the Morning" Leicester Dils. Dils' keen mimicry and barbed wit have succeeded in drawing enemies -- from the President to local church elders, from WASP snobs in foulards to the neighbors' poodle who pees on his lawn (and at which Dils fires his Red Ryder rifle!). What can Gin Lane do?

When a hit-and-run Rolls Royce slams Cowboy Dils during his midnight run along Gin Lane, Beecher Stowe and his gorgeous sidekick Lady Alix Dunraven are asking only one question: Who is out to kill the most controversial broadcaster in America? With Memorial Day nearing and chaos looming, Beecher and Her Ladyship spring into action.

Last summer, the adventures of Beecher and Lady Alix on Further Lane earned comparisons to The Thin Man and The Great Gatsby, with one reviewer calling the yarn, "the most impudent novel of the year". Said Liz Smith, "Brady gets it exactly right; the real characters and the faux". People magazine called Brady's work, "refreshing...a romp...a dash of literary verite".