The Yellow Overcoat

Four hundred dollars for a yellow overcoat. It sounded crazy to the owner of a correspondence school for detectives. But the well-heeled stranger who blustered into his office wanted that overcoat at any price. Because it looked like easy pickings, he took the job. The search led from a swank Chicago hotel to a Loop flophouse, from clothing stores to a mining town gambling den. Too late, he found it wasn't an overcoat he sought but a killer who always shot his victims just before he arrived on the scene, then pinned the rap on him... Cover Artist: Rudolph Belarski Also released as Fall Guy for a Killer by Frank Gruber (1950) & The Yellow Overcoat by Stephen Acre (1942)