It was bad enough the girl was beautiful. But beautiful and naked and dead in a Greenwich Village apartment - it was too much. Case like this put homicide cops in the pressure cooker. So Detective Pete Selby and his sidekick Stan Rayder knew they had to wrap this one in a hurry.

Before the brass started yelling for blood.

Before they were back in uniform in some alfalfa precinct in Brooklyn.

Before the killer got lucky again with his knife.