Fiend in Need
Author: first_name: Milton K.
last_name: Ozaki
Language: English
Year: 1947

There were no tell-tale traces of blood, no traces of struggle, no clues that Lieutenant Phelan could put his fingers on-yet someone had plunged a knife into Lawrence Straw, an auditor with a deft head for double figures, and deposited him in a not-too-private self-service elevator. Suspects are too few. A wealthy widow with an acid tongue, a small- time gambler with an unpredictable wife, a hard-boiled restaurant owner, a popular lecturer, a college professor, a night club operator and three lo