Erle Stanley Gardner 
The D.A. Takes a Chance 

Blond Eve Dawson came to Hollywood to be a star and didn’t make the grade. But as a party girl she was much in demand – until someone shot her during a wild party given for a lot of prominent politicians. Everyone clammed up and pressure was brought to bear – even on popular D.A. Doug Selby. But Selby and Sheriff Brandon wouldn’t hush. The next time beautiful Eve turned up she was a corpse with a carving knife deep in her chest. And even that suave old fox A.B. Carr couldn’t stop the D.A. from finding out who killed her and why.