help with this one please

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Hi there everyone

I'm here to pick your brains. Does anyone recognise this story which I read a very long time ago and just can't find again?

Doyle has been kidnapped and the nasty man has forced him to stand, precariously balanced on a chair, positioned on top of a table, with his hands tied behind his back and a tight noose looped around his neck. If he tires, loses concentration or overbalances then he will hang himself.

In the meantime, Bodie is frantically looking for him and his search takes him to a warehouse where he has to defeat the baddie before he can save Doyle. Injuries abound and I remember Bodie trying to descend the cellar steps leaving a trail of blood behind him.

Does it sound familiar?

ETA Found! Dead Bluff by Linda S Maclaren & Gina Martin. Many thanks.