MEET WILLIE HALLIDAY - private eye. A leader among the new wave of private dicks. the MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS called him. Willie doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, and he prefers to stay in nights studying his Buddhist manuscripts, but that doesn't mean he's a pushover. As the beautiful Mrs Austin Reeves and her equally beautiful daughters find out.But then his Amazonian, young secretary, Phoebe who boxed for Roedean could have told them that Set in Covent Garden in the Eighties, Willie's first adventure sees him caught up with the smart set - and the rough set in a story of blackmail and murder. The BUFFALO EVENING NEWS wrote, Willie Halliday, who moves through clients and cases a la the late Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. Tight writing and some good dialogue. www.williehalliday.com