Publisher's Synopsis
SHE WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL . . . AND VERY DEAD
New York City Detective Nick Carter found the woman with a bullet in her head.
Had the waiter in the French caf�, Gaspard, killed Mrs. Jones? Or had Mr. Jones shot his wife?
The clues mount up for the famous detective.
But then who should show up on the scene but . . .
Another Mrs. Jones!
Before Sherlock Holmes, there was Nick Carter, an American solver of mysteries, whose adventures stretched from dime novels, to the pulps, to radio and the screen . . . and straight into paperbacks!