Jake Randolph in "Tiki Moon" Pt. 10

The final destination was Beverly Hills, and I drove up there thinking that maybe the name the chickie had given me on the phone was fake and this was all for nothing. But I like to be prepared, and I didn't have anything better to do anyway.

The final Mort Alexander in the Los Angeles area lived in a palatial Tudor-style mansion that had been half-swallowed by some very hungry and persistent ivy. But what the gardener lacked in the ivy-pruning department he obviously made up for with the lawns, trees and bushes, which were perfectly manicured...