JAMES HADLEY CHASE

Safer Dead / Dead Ringer

                                
     A girl, Fay Benson, working as a song and dance artist in the Florian Night Club, Welden, disappears one night, before her show. She is wearing only a star-spangled bra and panties, a top hat and some feathers. The doorman swears that no one had passed him by. Later, her body in a cement jacket,  is fished out from the lake... It appears that  the doorman had been lying, but he is now dead. Obviously, something is very very wrong somewhere... But things really go out of hand when Sladen, the reporter from Crime Facts, who is investigating the case,  is hounded by the local police and becomes a fugitive himself...