No Modest Mayhem — Robert Leslie Bellem

A FICTION HOUSE PRESS SPECIAL BOOK:DAN TURNER, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVETHE ADVENTURES OF A MASTER-SLEUTHIN TINSELTOWN.Dan Turner tries to prevent a murder—and runs into more than one. Trying to catch a killer, he almost becomes one himself. And—stumbling over corpse after corpse—he almost becomes one of them, too!There could be no mistake. Dan Turner knew that Bill McNulty had phoned. Yet Bill denied it. And that left Dan Turner in the middle of a murder beef with a desperate killer on his trail and no defence except his own quickness of wit.This movie ham named McBride acted the death scene very realistically—mostly because some sly sinister stinker had put a real bullet completely through his think-tank. And as foul luck would have it, Dan Turner was on the scene and having it demonstrated that the trigger-finger was quicker than his hawkshaw eye. From then on, Dan was busier than a confused dog in a flea circus.Originally published in Hollywood Detective in 1943-45.