Swingin' Hollywood P.I. Rick Holman tries to help a morose film star whose Astrology signs point to his murder in Carter Brown's The Hang-Up Kid.
Carter Brown was Australian author Alan Yates, who wrote hundreds and hundreds of paperbacks from the 50s-80s and could have written thousands probably if he hadn't died fairly young.
Holman figures out that there might be a good reason the film star is afraid of being killed, and it might have something to do with a car accident that killed his wife.
This one was written in 1970, and has all the plotting and characterization of that era, some of which doesn't jibe with contemporary tastes.
Obviously Brown wrote lickety-split, and this one shows, as the plot is fairly quippy and not overly demanding.
I grabbed this at a rummage sale for a quarter and read it in a single day camping, then left it at a Little Free Library. I think Carter Brown is good for exactly this kind of thing.
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