The Flight of the Stiff by Michael Brett

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 1967. Pocket Books. First Printing. Stock Image.

Murder,
Money,
Mobsters

When gang lord Lloyd Marshall is found knifed in his apartment, the police sound out an alarm for the capture of his beautiful redheaded girl friend, Diane Desault. She has mysteriously vanished, along with $40,000 from Marshall's safe.

Her disappearance is no mystery to private detective Pete McGrath, however, who daringly takes on her defense, hides her, and goes in search of the killer. His fearless snooping into the big-city underworld provides Pete with perhaps the most dangerous 48 hours of his life.