Velda — Ron Miller

HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE: When burlesque beauty Velda Bellinghausen decides to become a private eye, she discovers it's not like in the movies. Her teenage client remembers every detail of a brutal murder. Witnesses saw the girl at the scene and a vindictive DA with a secret agenda of his own has enough physical evidence to hang her . . . which he has every intention of doing. But Velda was with the teenager when the murder took place and knows she didn't do it. Can she prove it, though? It's a tough job for Velda that takes her from the studios of New York pinup artists to the swamps of the Florida Keys and the discovery of a conspiracy that seems to get more tangled the more she tries to unravel it . . .