The Face of Evil — John McPartland

Her Kind of Woman Happens Only Once and a Man Will Kill to Keep Her First published in 1954, McPartland's Face of Evil is the story of Bill Oxford, a fixer on the downside of corruption, sent to Long Beach by a PR firm with the mission: ruin a decent man and end the chap's political career, or else Oxford will lose all his great perks. A much-missed novel.