A Real Shot in the Arm

Chris Martin - housewife - was dead from the neck up until she joined the staff at the Tipping Herald, and dead from the neck down until Pete Shiavo touched her! The corpse she discovered on her first assignment, hanging from a fire escape, doesn't look to her like a suicide - after all, heroin addicts don't usually OD and then string themselves up. And what's the connection with the proposed development of a rundown area of town? As Chris gets nearer to the truth she finds herself enmeshed in a web of police corruption, blackmail and civic disobedience.