The Frightened Stiff

WHEN HAILA FINDS A BODY IN THE GARDEN OF THEIR NEW BASEMENT APARTMENT JEFF HAS TO DO SOME QUICK DETECTING – BEFORE HAILA GETS FRAMED FOR THE KILLING! "A fast moving plot and a merry roll for the reader." Springfield (MA) Daily News Greenwich Village was perfect. If you didn't count the body in the garden. Haila Troy just loved the garden level apartment she and Jeff had just moved into in the old Greenwich Village brownstone. Then Haila overheard a sinister figure in a neighboring bar arrange a rendezvous in their apartment for that very night. The next morning the cops pulled her out of bed and showed her the naked body of a dead man in her garden. What's more, it looked very much as if he'd been drowned—in Jeff and Haila's bathtub. Just about every tenant. in the brownstone looked guilty. It also looked like the murderer was thinking of making either Jeff or Haila the next victim. Then it's off on another madcap, zany Troys comedy murder mystery. What murder mystery fan could ask for anything more. This light-hearted, fast-paced Golden Age Mystery was filmed as A Night To Remember (1943) with Loretta Young and Brian Aherne as the Troys. "Well-done suspense. Plenty of excitement and slick detective work." The Madison (WI) Capital Times "Rapid-fire dialogue, an air-tight plot and excellent characterizations mark the new mystery by Kelley Roos." The Davenport (IA) Daily Times