“No Vacation for Murder”

By Ron Miller Featuring Velda Bellinghausen Summer 2004 The Thrilling Detective Web Site is pleased to offer, as a small token of our appreciation for your support and as a special summer treat, another pdf goodie from the warped mind (and nimble fingers) of the stupendously talented Ron Miller and Velda Bellinghausen, everyone's favourite stripper-cum-private eye. It's … Continue reading “No Vacation for Murder”

“Velda Meets the Strangler”

By Ron Miller Featuring Velda Bellinghausen Holidays 2003 This being the holiday season and all, The Thrilling Detective Web Site is pleased to offer, as a small token of our appreciation for your support over the years, this 99-page "Better Little Book," courtesy of the stupendously talented Ron Miller, and featuring Velda Bellinghausen, everyone's favourite stripper-cum-private eye. … Continue reading “Velda Meets the Strangler”

“The Thirteen Feathers”

By Ron Miller Featuring Velda Bellinghausen Summer 2003 I hate clocks. Ever since I quit Slotsky's Follies, I'd enjoyed the luxury of sleeping late in the mornings. But that morning, God knows why, my alarm went off at five o'clock. Figuring coffee and donuts at Joe's might help me start seeing in color, I stumbled out of … Continue reading “The Thirteen Feathers”

“Velda’s First Case”

By Ron Miller Featuring Velda Bellinghausen Summer 2002 It all began (I know, I know, but there's really no other way to start this), with a visit from Maxim Slotsky, of all people. I hadn't seen him in two or three months, since I left Slotsky's Follies. Not that I didn't like the Follies, which I didn't, … Continue reading “Velda’s First Case”

Velda Bellinghausen

Created by Ron Miller From the The New York Graphic, February 2, 1951: CHORUS GIRL TURNS SHAMUS "To the disappointment of her many admirers, Miss Velda Bellinghausen, one of the better-known of the leggy chorines of Slotnik's Famous Follies, has turned in her g-string. What does the retiring ecdysiast plan to do with her time? … Continue reading Velda Bellinghausen