Kiss for a Killer G. G. Fickling, 1960 I picked up this book because: 1) It was $1.00 2) Awesome cover art 3) Back cover copy claimed: “The Ficklings are widely credited with creating American fiction's first female detective” Premise: Honey West is a private investigator, and like most, she has a talent for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. This time, however, her sometime flame Rip Spensor is messily dead, and Honey heads the list of suspects. The rest of the list includes a Italian movie starlet, a reporter, and the leaders of a nudist cult. I'm a fan of classic noir and pulp, but I haven't read any in a while, and most of what I've read was from the 30's and 40's, not the 60's. In short, I had to readjust my brain to get into this, but then I flew through it. It's really short. I was disappointed with this book. It starts strong, and has some good parts, some clever turns of phrase, but it's just not great. I like