From Thriller Picture Library #415, July 1962. Reprinted in Secret Agent Picture Library Summer Special 1967.
The death of Big Pierre Soutou, jazz trumpeter supreme known and respected around the world, is the opening to this bizarre case. Soutou had a great gig at a London nightclub before suddenly heading home to Haiti where he died of a heart attack. Back in London, the man's nervous-twitching manager cannot believe it because Soutou was in great health and there was no plans for the sudden flight to Haiti. He comes to John Steel to investigate.