The Wicked

The Wicked

'A guy who knows Deirdre Damour that well,' he said, 'is just wasting time being dead!'

The Wicked was the first Carter Brown novella to feature the 'unorthodox' LA Lieutenant Al Wheeler and it sees Al investigating the murder of a screenwriter of a western who made enemies of the cast and crew by writing a series of kiss and tell articles for a gossip magazine. Al knows that the cop who found the body is hiding something and soon there are dead bodies aplenty while our hero falls for the leading lady — and pretty much every other dame in town!