Marvin Albert, one of the best of the Gold Medal writers, writing under his Albert Conroy pseudonym, is in top form here. An ex-boxer, who now co-owns a trucking firm, has a one night stand with a beautiful dame, heads back to his own hotel, and is arrested the next morning for her brutal murder. The circumstantial evidence looks like enough to hang him. Thus begins yet another story of a man who has to prove his own innocence, because the cops don't care. What sets it apart from so many others of its type is just how well Albert writes. This is a model of the 1950s style of quick reading, action packed books aimed at male readers. Women tend to be first described in terms of their physical attractiveness--but at least one in this book rises above that to prove her smarts. This is one of those books you'll have to read in one sitting because you won't be able to go to sleep until you get to the end. ( )