title: You Make Me Feel So Dead (A Rat Pack Mystery)
author:  Robert J. Randisi 
description: Set in 1964, Randisi's eighth Rat Pack mystery (after 2012's It Was a Very Bad Year) delivers a tasty slice of nostalgia with a healthy dollop of crime and humor. Elvis Presley has come to Las Vegas to promote his movie Viva Las Vegas, and a worried Colonel Tom Parker wants someone to see that Elvis doesn't get into trouble. Frank Sinatra nominates his friend Eddie Gianelli, a Sands casino exec, for the job. But Eddie also has to help PI buddy Danny Bardini with a girl problem that takes a serious turn when Danny is framed for a murder. Elvis, Frank, and Dean Martin all assist Eddie in trying to solve Danny's problem. Randisi paints a sympathetic picture of a polite and intelligent but very vulnerable Elvis, already struggling with fame and hangers-on. Big bruiser Jerry Epstein once again provides invaluable aid in this celebrity-fueled adventure. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary. (Sept.)
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  IT’S A GOOD __ LIFE
  
  
  
  
  
  _By JEROME BIXBY_
  
  
  
  
  
  Aunt Amy was out on the front porch, rocking back and forth in the high-backed
  chair and fanning herself, when Bill Soames rode his bicycle up the road and
  stopped in front of the house.
  
  
  Perspiring under the afternoon “sun,” Bill lifted the box of groceries out of
  the big basket over the front wheel of the bike and came up the front walk.
  
  
  Little Anthony was sitting on the lawn, playing with a rat. He had caught the
  rat down in the basement—he had made it think that it smelled cheese, the most
  rich-smelling and crumbly-deli-cious cheese a rat had ever thought it smelled,
  and it had come out of its hole, and now Anthony had hold of it with his mind
  and was making it do tricks.
  
  
  When the rat saw Bill Soames coming, it tried to run, but An-thony thought at
  it, and it turned a flip-flop on the grass and lay trembling, its eyes
  gleaming in small black terror.
  
  
  Bill Soames hurried past Anthony and reached the front steps,