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It didn't take Al Wheeler long to find the misssing 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 comehither look in her eyes had vanished, to be replaced forever by a vacant stare. Lily was just…

Her disappearance was listed on the police blotter as a routine Missing Persons Case, but Captain Parker was convinced she'd been murdered. And he ordered AL WHEELER to find her killer fast! Faced with no corpse and no clues, the California cop is forced to follow a dangerous lead. It takes him straight to the secluded harem of a crooked financier who gets Al jailed on a phony assault charge and nails him with a fake murder rap - the perfect frame to hang a troublemaker . . . named Wheeler.