Sexy Los Angeles private detective Honey West matches wits with four murder suspects as she investigates the deaths of a washed-up Hollywood entertainer, a beautiful woman, and a poisoning victim, in a new edition of a crime novel first published in the 1950s.

Honey is invited to the wild New Year’s Eve party at horror film director Rote Collier’s house in A Gun For Honey. Collier lives in Shark Beach where lately two women have been suffocated to death by the “Kissing Killer.” When Collier’s wife Helen ends up a real corpse in a fake coffin, Sheriff Mark Storm suspects Marine pilot Reed Walker because his wings were located under the dead body. Eventually, Mark arrests Dr. Erik Ford for the deed, but Honey is not satisfied that he is the killer. That is probably because Honey is witness to the biggest bunch of rambling pseudo-confessions and fake alibis ever assembled.

In Girl On the Loose, Honey is kidnapped and dressed to look like an AWOL Marine named Sylvia Verse, only to have her kidnapper killed in a hail of bullets intended for Honey. Rescued by Lt. Mark Storm, she is informed that on the same night an old friend from Junior College was smothered to death shortly after giving birth. Meanwhile, in the same hospital, someone who matches Honey’s description kidnaps a millionaire’s new baby. Three strange occurrences like this need a talented author to handle a well-crafted plot and some believable characters to carry the ball. Unfortunately, the Ficklings were trapped in that goofy 1950s style where characters were cartoons and the plots could weave wildly around the facts without regard to reality. Bodies fall everywhere as guns become the means to settle all scores, but typically our heroine manages to dodge all the lead.

Mawson Lawrence, producer of the Miss Twentieth Century Pageant, has eighty of the world’s most beautiful woman in his contest until Miss California goes missing. After a body is pulled from the Long Beach harbor, Honey is hired to determine if the mutilated corpse is the missing beauty in Honey in the Flesh. While she successfully identifies the corpse as the missing Josephine Keller, a second woman with that name shows up at the contest claiming to be the real Miss California. A second contestant dies and West begins to investigate in both Long Beach and Tijuana with her suspicions focused on Lawrence. As always, she battles with Lt. Mark Storm during the investigation.

Before Anne Francis portrayed Honey West—the Private Eyeful—in one of TV's classics, Honey was a full-fledged pulp fiction detective.Nervy—and curvey—Honey West battled the baffling mystery of identical triplets through a maze of deception, chicanery and even murder. Set in the campy 60's, Honey West shows that sometimes the best man for the job is a woman

The Honey’s boy toy Rip Spensor, a Los Angeles Rams QB who got sacked by a steamroller (“ground right into the asphalt”), and Angela Scali, an Italian Hollywood bombshell that set out for an innocent weekend at a nudist colony run by some quirky evangelical Christians and ended up hanging dead in a romantic mountain glade (“the grass underneath red with her blood”). What connects the Both were associated with a certain blonde gumshoe with an unmistakable 38-22-36 figure and a license to carry.

In Dig a Dead Doll, Pete Freckle is an American bullfighter who asks Honey to attend his fight in Tijuana. When he appears to stumble just before being gored to death by a bull, Honey wants to view his corpse to determine why. However, Pete’s corpse disappears in gruesome slaughterhouse full of dead bulls, and the reason appears to be the maneuverings of the master Mexican criminal Zingo. As she chases Zingo, Honey is strung naked from a tree and left for dead. This leads her longtime nemesis Lt. Storm to say, “You seem to be naked more time then you’re clothed.” On the rebound, Honey keeps pushing despite being machine-gunned by a plane while she is at sea, set up on a phony heroin smuggling rap and accused of murdering one of a pair of lesbian strippers. Oh, yeah – and her clothes keep falling off.

Old family friend Vic Kendall is producing a musical on Broadway based on Honey called Eyeful in Blood and Honey. Vic wants Honey to come to New York City as a consultant, and her first night in town is spent dodging bullets. Others associated with Vic have also had trouble and the reason may be that Vic’s last two shows were flops. Personal relationships are strained between actors, songwriters, producers and director that results in Tina Kendall, Vic’s wife, being found electrocuted in Honey’s hotel bathroom. More deaths follow despite Honey receiving help from Lt. Mark Storm (on leave) and reporter Fred Sims (on assignment). The climax takes place on a sinking ship in the New York harbor with a surprise suspect the cause of all this havoc.

Very special agent Honey West was used to men wanting her lucious body. It was one of the tools of her trade, and pleasure before, during, and after business was her motto. But now a diabolical international conspiracy wanted her body for a far different reason. Even Honey did not know the strange secret her lush form concealed when a crew of highly trained swingers began their assault. And by the time the blonde bombshell realized she was carrying a charge that would explode at a single touch on the wrong place, it was too late to say no to such delicious danger...

Honey's hard on her feet, soft on her back, a karate-chopping spy-queen who always gets her man- one way or another. This time Honey's after a woman. Madame Fong, dragon-lady of the Chinese Commies, has plans to send all of Frisco on a no-return trip via an annihilating dose of lethal nerve gas. So Honey has to get Madame Fong. But first she has to sidetrack three watchdog studs, challenging their talents in bed and out. That's how the Commies found out that when Honey West does a job, she gives it all she's got. Stiff as a Broad is the eleventh book about the world's sexiest girl detective.