This movie was based on the 1941 novel THE G-STRING MURDERS. attributed to celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, who is now remembered by most people for the biographical musical GYPSY. However the book was actually ghosted by the popular (female) mystery writer Craig Rice, who performed the same service on the mystery "by" George Sanders, CRIME ON MY HANDS (1944). And if that's not enough pseudonyms, Craig Rice was also a pen-name for Georgiana Ann Randolph).