Originally published as two separate works entitled The Pale Door and Death of a Ladies' Man in the Unted States by Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. and Gold Medal Books, in 1955 and 1960 resepectively.
Contents:
Death of a Ladies' Man. The Pale Door -- Death of a Ladies' Man.
Summary:
Dr. Kerry hires Chad to keep tabs on his alcoholic wife, who has fallen apart after the stillborn death of their child. Chad puts his best men on the case to keep her out of trouble while he handles a case out of town. Virginia Kerry is a determined drinker, and she keeps Chad's men busy. When Chad returns, he takes over the watch. He observes the doctor returning home late. He even follows Dr. Hamid, a fellow doctor and friend of Dr. Kerry's, who leaves their house suspiciously late. So when Chad discovers that Dr. Kerry has been shot through the heart that night while Virginia lay passed out in the next room, he knows the murder must has been committed by either the wife or the late night visitor. But nothing about this case is as simple as it seems. It starts with a robbery. Three men steal $42,000 from a finance company, and one of them is shot. This event sets the wheels in motion-and proves fatal for Lt. John Horner. Horner has been seeing two women on the side while bucking for a promotion. Captain Kelly is about to reach retirement age, and Horner wants his job so bad he can almost taste it. However, Horner has made some enemies lately. The husbands of the two women both find out the same night that Horner has been seducing their wives while they were on the job. They both want to kill him. Horner is too busy investigating the robbery to notice the danger he's in. Until one night, when it all catches up with him.
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