Vintage Silver Age Mystery
Just the Facts Category: How — Death by knife/dagger/etc.
TBR #6
Monthly Key Word: Year
Cloak and Dagger Challenge #4
Date Finished: January 14, 2018

Rick Holman, generic private detective character, investigates the missing fiance of a Hollywood actor, who is also a dwarf. The missing fiance is close to six feet tall and has an almost identical younger sister who gets involved in the search and with Holman. The search takes them to a sleazy movie maker and to a movie distribution center that is doubling as a drug distribution center. All the murderers are discovered in the end.

The best thing to be said about this, and most Carter Brown books, is that they are short. The mysteries are fairly adequate as mysteries, the humor is usually forced and unfunny, and you always get a fairly creepy feeling about reading them. Only the names are changed here. The actor character is hardly present and serves mostly to justify the title, which likely came first.