Newly illustrated with 15 sizzling-hot photographs.

Nicholas Wood is a thirty-something writer in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. As he plans to write a crime novel, Nick stumbles into a sexy, real life murder mystery he could never have imagined. This is hard boiled noir at its steamiest, with plenty of booze, broads and blam-blam to go around.

Dear Reader:

Im thirty-four. Im a college professor. I was fired because a girl was found in my room. Honest, she was only taking a shower. She had a million dollars and she waved them under my nose all this and the lady, too. But I wouldnt be bought, so I got out pronto.

I found a job as bodyguard to a rich old refugee who was in deadly fear of being murdered.

His young wife was a gal who would never let a mans blood cool. Then his adopted daughter decided I was her meat, too.

What a spot for one guy to be in. Envy me? Dont.

When the old man did get bumped off, who was the fall guy they tried to pin it on? Me, of course.

What could I do? What would you have done? Let me know, wont you?

- Nicholas Wood