Die Tote von Beverly Hills (1964)

A certain C. G. discovers a dead girl in a small patch of woodland near Beverly Hills. The body is naked; the girl is seventeen-year-old Lu Sostlov. Everything points to the murder of an innocent young girl with an unblemished past. Detective Ben begins the investigation. But the first results soon paint a very different picture of the dead girl from Beverly Hills. Her diary reveals that Lu was by no means an innocent country girl, but had led a remarkably varied love life. Moreover, evidence mounts that she was not even seventeen, but only fourteen. In flashbacks, the dead girl’s “scandalous” love life is reconstructed and laid bare. The list of Lu’s lovers recorded in her diary is long. At a young age, the promiscuous girl had already had an affair with a wealthy painter, Dr. Steininger; Peter de Lorm, a very young, up-and-coming screenwriter from Germany; and the celebrated Wagner tenor Swendka. And what about the mysterious C. G., a Swiss writer who had “quite by chance” discovered the body? He, too, is mentioned in the diary. Not to forget Lu’s cuckolded husband, an exiled Czech archaeologist who had emigrated to the United States. Many of the traces Lu’s nymphomania left on her lovers lead nowhere. But then a hot lead takes Ben to Las Vegas, where the dancing Tiddy Sisters perform in variety shows every night. It turns out that they were rivals of the dead girl and were responsible for her death.