Strangle Hold

Synopsis: "It was a big New York City advertising agency, very efficient, very high pressure. It feared nothing but its powerful and respectable clients. "Eve Fitzsimmons came to work for the agency, and was comforted to find at least one old friend there--Willie Piel, redheaded and brisk. Willie taught Eve the ropes, warned her, among other things, about Luke Barden, the art director, told her he was almost impossible to get on with. "But Willie couldn't have warned Eve that one morning, when the staff had gathered to hold a meeting in the conference room, they would find the naked body of a stranger, a woman who had been strangled with a necktie, lying in one corner of the room. "No advertising agency can take murder in its stride, not a murder done on the premises, certainly. And Eve's life suddenly became incredibly complicated, and filled with terror. "Mary McMullen has written an unusual and amusing, well-plotted novel of murder in an ad agency, that should delight a very wide audience. "This novel was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post under the title Who Killed Miss X?"