Tonight's case starts in a second floor room of a dingy rooming house near the bay section of a large eastern city. It was five o'clock in the morning and persistent pounding on the door of Vicky Chester was needed to awaken her. She was by trade a nightspot hostess, and had retired only an hour ago. For a moment she sat on the edge of the bed, then as the door pounding persisted, she slipped on a light negligee and went to the door...