A petulant blonde bombshell with a deadly taste for danger …

A ham actor who stars dramatically in his own murder …

A sharpshooting hoodlum who takes his killing casually …

And a lady Greek philosopher with “the longest, shapeliest legs in New York” …

These are only a few of the characters who mix it up with Peter Chambers, as fiction’s most eye-catching private eye vaults from one lighting-paced, hard-boiled adventure to another.