Barr Breed Series / The Body in the Bed / Bill S. Ballinger

It was a tired businessman’s dream: a cosy love nest, a willing mistress, the favourite pipe and slippers. Except for one thing. The voluptuous body in the bed was dead.

When Chicago businessman Paul Gibbs comes out of the shower at his girlfriend Caroline MacCormick’s flat, he finds her strangled on the bed. Afraid of being accused of the crime, he quickly leaves the flat and calls the tough and quick private detective Barr Breed. The married Gibbs wants Breed to find the murderer, but also to conceal the connection between MacCormick and himself, as his wife has been trying to find grounds for divorce. When Gibbs is found dead shortly afterwards, Breed himself becomes the police’s prime suspect, leading him to go into hiding and increasing the chances of finding the real killer.