title: Vice Versa: A Detective Tale of Greed and Getting Off
author: Allen D. Cowan
description: Allen D. Cowan is a prize-winning journalist who has successfully exposed corrupt evangelists, land-sales schemes, greyhound-training cruelty, and other scams. His investigative reporting led to being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In his 25-year career, he has logged more than 10,000 hours of on-the-job sleuthing as a licensed private investigator.
zlib_text: **CARLY PHILLIPS**
  
   **SIMPLY Sensual**
  
   **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  BEN CALLAHAN FROWNED at the bone china cup on the sterling serving tray in
  front of him. Unable to fit one of his large fingers through the handle, he
  tried instead to hold the delicate cup with his whole hand. He’d have chucked
  the idea of attempting to grasp the cup, if not for his elderly hostess. Emma
  Montgomery had declared it was teatime, and from what Ben had seen, he
  wouldn’t be getting any information out of her until he’d shared in her daily
  ritual.
  
  He’d never understand the wealthy, nor did he care to try. He’d had a good
  deal of experience with the breed, none of it leaving a positive impression.
  His mother had scrubbed floors for a living and he’d seen firsthand how poorly
  the help was treated. He’d whisked his mother away from menial labor and
  verbal abuse as soon as he was old enough to support them both.
  
  It was ironic, really. Most of the clients he’d accumulated as a private
  investigator had money to burn. Be