by Carter Brown (Author), Chris Yates (Introduction by)
THE WENCH IS WICKED
In which Lt. Al Wheeler must confront--
--a murdered Hollywood writer whose body is discovered at the bottom of a gravel pit with three bullet holes in him...
--a cop who turns up shot to death the next night in the same gravel pit with $3,000 in his pocket...
--and a Hollywood film crew that is shooting a western nearby, starring a cast of characters who all have good reason to see the writer dead...
BLONDE VERDICT
In which Lt. Al Wheeler must consider--
--why a lawyer suddenly collapses and dies in a bar from curare poisoning?
--why the lawyer's wife seems to be so unconcerned about the sudden death of her wealthy husband?
--what has become of the handsome fiancée of the murdered man's mistress?
DELILAH WAS DEADLY
In which Lt. Al Wheeler must contend with--
--the corpse of the social editor found in the safe of the prestigious fashion magazine, in his pajamas and strangled with a girdle...
--a second body, stabbed in the back, this time a murdered cop who had been sent to the social editor's apartment to look around....
--and two more bodies that pile up under similar circumstances, all pointing to someone who could be trying to steal the magazine's latest designs...