Skip A Beat — Henry Kane

One of the great men of the country, Adam Woodward, has just hired Peter Chambers to be his bodyguard. Woodward, a famous newspaper columnist, is about to expose someone as a Communist. But before can start to do his job, Woodward is gunned down in the street. And Chambers is the only witness to the murder. The solution to Woodward's murder was carefully written down -- but Woodward had hidden it where Peter Chambers couldn't find it. A Peter Chambers mystery by Noir Master, Henry Kane.