Hollywood and LeVine

A trip to the West Coast lands Jack LeVine in a tangled Hollywood murder web

After nearly a decade of churning out hits, Warner Bros. screenwriter Walter Adrian wants a raise on his weekly $2,500 salary. He thinks a thousand dollars more is fair-but the studio's counteroffer is low, and dropping fast. Something is wrong, and he thinks it may have to do with communism.

Though he insists he isn't a Red, Adrian has no way of proving it. He flees to New York to ask the advice of high school ...