Trial by Terror

Mercury Mystery #192.

In a small Key West nightclub, a young girl wriggled in a white dress. As the music thumped, the wriggling became more emphatic. The sailors in the smoky, dimly lit room began chanting...

The elite Coral Isles Hotel was crammed with vacationers. Bronson Wells, an ex-communist turned red-hunter, was one of them--until they found him murdered...

There was no apparent connection between the stabbed Wells and the snake-hipped girl. Captain Heimrich found one, though--a sordid business that had given the girl good reason to kill. And Heimrich found many others who hated the ex-communist.

Somewhere among these wronged, bitter people he knew he would find the killer. But it was the killer, with knife in hand, who found Heimrich...