THE WENCH IS WICKED In which Lt. Al Wheeler must confront----a murdered Hollywood writer whose body is discovered at the bottom of a gravel pit with three bullet holes in him...--a cop who turns up shot to death the next night in the same gravel pit with $3,000 in his pocket...--and a Hollywood film crew that is shooting a western nearby, starring a cast of characters who all have good reason to see the writer dead... BLONDE VERDICT In which Lt. Al Wheeler must consider----why a lawyer suddenly collapses and dies in a bar from curare poisoning?--why the lawyer's wife seems to be so unconcerned about the sudden death of her wealthy husband?--what has become of the handsome fiancÉe of the murdered man's mistress? DELILAH WAS DEADLY In which Lt. Al Wheeler must contend with----the corpse of the social editor found in the safe of the prestigious fashion magazine, in his pajamas and strangled with a girdle...--a second body, stabbed in the back, this time a murdered cop who had been sent to the social editor's apartment to look around....--and two more bodies that pile up under similar circumstances, all pointing to someone who could be trying to steal the magazine's latest designs...