Death on the Downbeat

She was a glamorous blonde who ran a jive joint that specialised in cool jazz … and hot corpses!

In Death on the Downbeat, “unorthodox” Lieutenant Al Wheeler is ready for love until three cool corpses get in his way. He finds the first in a jive joint run by a sultry blonde who calls the tune when it comes to music and men. The second turns up in a back-street rooming house that’s a front for dope peddling. The third, smack on his own doorstep. Suddenly Al is up against a plug-happy killer out to make a cop his fourth corpse. A cop named Wheeler.

The Blonde

The party girl was going to tell all about a Hollywood scandal— right on TV. But then she was scooped … by her murderer!

In The Blonde, Al Wheeler is sent to investigate the alleged suicide of filmland Romeo Lee Manning. Georgia Brown knows what really happened and is ready to spill the beans on TV. But before the story gets a chance to sizzle the airwaves, a killer steps in and stops George Brown dead. Al Wheeler finds himself playing a near fatal role in an underground production of murder. …