It didn't take Al Wheeler long to find the missing Lily Teal - the beautiful blonde bombshell who had mys­teriously taken a powder while on her way to the corner drugstore to buy some pills. The only trouble was, he discovered her twice.

The first time he found her - on the wrong side of a locked door in a crooked financier's palatial hideaway - she was dressed in diamonds and little else.

The second time he found her - curled up in his apartment-she was a sight to make Al's blood turn cold. She wore the same dazzling outfit but the come-hither look in her eyes had vanished, to be replaced forever by a vacant stare.

Lily was just as beautiful dead as she had been alive - and just as deadly. Al found that out when the cops jailed him for her murder.