Tempt A Tigress by Carter Brown

1958 Horwitz Edition

If you ever wondered what happened to all the screwball you used to know? They are sent to Louisiana. Private Eye Danny Boyd was sent to Louisiana to entice a one million dollar worth  film star away from a sinister character by the named of Von Essen. Short of kidnapping and murdering the character was Boyd getting nowhere fast. Danny keeps an appointment in a summer house with a blonde, had just been kissed, when he hears a blood curdling scream. The body had its throat torn out, pointing to a tiger. It would have been an open and shut case, but for one fact: There are no tigers in Louisiana. Danny had proof the film actress could turn herself into a tigress at will. And she was ready to kill again.  Tempt A Tigress is the 62nd title in Horwitz's Numbered Series and published in 1958.