New York: Simon & Schuster, (1952). Hardcover first edition - The fourth crime novel featuring lawyer Scott Jordan by an author who was himself a lawyer and who often used real cases (his own and others) in books. In this "a rich and beautiful countess, tagged by the newspapers as the fabulous Screwball, who seems to prove it to Jordan when she offers him $5,000 if hell marry her. Jordan never gets a chance to accept her proposition or to find out why it was offered, because in less than 24 hours, she's murdered. Jordan finds himself in the soup again, and he has to find the real killer" Gary Lovisi called Jordan "one of the best of the hard-boiled detectives, and one of the most neglected." 238 pp.