$25
FICKLING, G.G.
[159] pp.
Pyramid Books
1965
Third Printing
7" x 4 1/4"
VG
Mawson Lawrence, producer of the Miss Twentieth Century Pageant, has eighty of the world’s most beautiful woman in his contest until Miss California goes missing. After a body is pulled from the Long Beach harbor, Honey is hired to determine if the mutilated corpse is the missing beauty in Honey in the Flesh. While she successfully identifies the corpse as the missing Josephine Keller, a second woman with that name shows up at the contest claiming to be the real Miss California. A second contestant dies and West begins to investigate in both Long Beach and Tijuana with her suspicions focused on Lawrence. As always, she battles with Lt. Mark Storm during the investigation.