Nipped in the Bud

A comedian is dead, a witness is missing, and it's up to Miss Withers—"one of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives"—to solve the crime (The New York Times).

In comedy, timing is everything. If Tony Fagan were a better comic, perhaps he would've known when to keep his mouth shut. After weeks of jokes at the expense of businessman Winston H. "Junior" Gault, the sponsor of Fagan's television show, Fagan is found with his head bashed in, and Gault is charged with the murder. The ...