Haila Troy just loved the garden level apartment in the old Greenwich Village brownstone. Husband Jeff thought the place was oddly familiar but he couldn’t quite recall why. It turned out it was the old speakeasy where he’d spent many a happy hour of his wayward youth. Then Haila overheard a sinister figure in a neighboring bar arrange a rendezvous in their apartment for that very night. The next morning the cops pulled her out of bed and showed her the naked body of a dead man in her garden. What’s more, it looked very much as if he’d been drowned—in Jeff and Haila’s bathtub.

Just about every tenant in the brownstone looked guilty. It also looked like the murderer was thinking of making either Jeff or Haila the next victim. The killer appeared to be unaware that the Troys had already made quite a name for themselves around New York City as amateur gumshoes. This light-hearted, fast-paced mystery was first published in 1942 and filmed one year later as A Night To Remember with Loretta Young and Brian Aherne as the Troys.

Reviews

“The two main characters are likable, amusing with a rather barbed sense of humor. The plotting is what really drives this book. It is a perplexing mystery. This was a great read.”
—Mystery News

“Highly recommended.”
—I Love a Mystery

“Whilst the murder and its investigation are center stage throughout this short novel, it is the slapstick wit and repartee of the Troys that is its strongest feature. The humor is very much of the wisecracking Hollywood kind, and reading the book is like being transported into a very entertaining black and white movie—very enjoyable, quite silly, and very self indulgent. I loved it.”
—Reviewing the Evidence

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