No Good From a Corpse

No Good From a Corpse (1944) – Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn’t believe that her boyfriend had killed her. Pursuing her own lonely trail, he found out just how easily jealousy and twisted rage could turn a human being into a monster of violence.

No Good From a Corpse is a twenty chapter novel first published in 1944.

According to Brackett: “It was published and Howard Hawks read it. I had a friend in Martindale’s bookstore. Hawks came in every couple of weeks and bought an armload of thrillers and my friend saw to it that mine got in the pile. A few days later my agent rang me up and said, ‘Howard Hawks wants to see you.’ I fell on the floor.”