Some Day I'll Kill You / Too Like the Lightning

SOME DAY I’LL KILL YOU: Jim Steele, radio scriptwriter and all-round tough guy, only has one weakness, and that’s Lisa. So when Lisa comes to him with some blackmailing letters, he immediately gets involved. The letters give her a limited amount of time to pay up or risk the consequences—death! Steele drives her home to her new husband’s estate where he meets her old friends. Could one of them be the blackmailer? Before Steele can make up his mind about them, Lisa’s best friend is murdered. Was she killed in a jealous rage… or could she have been mistaken for Lisa? Steele would do anything for Lisa, but can he save her from being next? TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING: Lisa is missing and presumed dead and Steele in his sorrow has thrown himself into government work. But he’s not prepared to wake up with a blonde in his bed and a dead man in the bathtub. It all starts when he is given the assignment to shadow a man, with the blonde to assist. There follows an evening that Steele can’t remember, and now he’s got a corpse to deal with. Then he is then kidnapped by a mysterious gentleman named Mr. Worth, who knows more than he should about the body in the bathtub. The trouble is, Steele has no idea who to trust in this crazy cat-and-mouse game. It seems everyone is out to get him!

“Dana Chambers” was born Albert Fear Leffingwell on April 24, 1895 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Leffingwell graduated from Harvard in 1916, and served in World War I in France as a member of the Intelligence Department. Upon his return, he began a career in advertising and co-founded an agency that eventually became part of McCann. Starting in 1938, Leffingwell began writing a series of crime thrillers under the name Dana Chambers, beginning with Some Day I’ll Kill You. He wrote 13 novels altogether as Chambers, Giles Jackson and under his own name. Seven of them featured Jim Steele, an ad copy writer turned detective. Leffingwell died on August 14, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, from kidney disease.