you're lonely when you're dead [rare books]

It began as just another routine. assignment for Vic Malloy, head of Universal Services. He'd been hired to watch the lovely Anita Cerf, whose millionaire husband suspected her of being a kleptomaniac. Everything was going fine until one of Malloy's operators was found dead-brutally murdered while working on the Cerf case...

Determined to find the killer himself, Malloy tried to interview Anita Cerf- but the lady was unavailable and had completely disappeared. So Vic Malloy found himself on the trail of a vicious murderer who was quite prepared to kill more than once. And the only person willing to help was a gorgeous red-head who swore she was just going along for the ride... but was she?