Velda Author:Ron Miller HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE: When burlesque beauty Velda Bellinghausen decides to become a private eye, she discovers it's not like in the movies. Her teenage client remembers every detail of a brutal murder. Witnesses saw the girl at the scene and a vindictive DA with a secret agenda of his own has enough physical evidence to hang her . . . which he ... more »has every intention of doing. But Velda was with the teenager when the murder took place and knows she didn't do it. Can she prove it, though? It's a tough job for Velda that takes her from the studios of New York pinup artists to the swamps of the Florida Keys and the discovery of a conspiracy that seems to get more tangled the more she tries to unravel it . . .« less