Dust jacket by Gavin L. O'Keefe

THE TIGER SNAKE

  Clifford Carson’s friend Cary Desmond has lost thousands of dollars that must be paid back or he’ll go to jail, and Cliff must find a rare, poisonous Zuri snake for the mysterious Jake Jennings if he wants the $1000 that Jennings will pay for the snake—dead or alive. And that’s not all! Cliff has to produce a $10,000 certificate for a client and it’s missing too! But when he receives a $20,000 gift from a dead man he must decide how to use it to solve his problems and marry the lovely Marcia. If only he knew for sure that the $20,000 gift was real. But only Harry Stephen Keeler knows, and he’s not telling till the last page!

  This book was also known as THE YELLOW ZURI.