Die Dame im Chinchilla (1961) is a detective fiction novel by German writer Frank Arnau.

[2] The body of a murdered woman is discovered in a New York apartment.

Her luxurious bedroom has been thoroughly searched, and expensive clothes are lying around.

Chief Inspector David Brewer knows that the victim lived on the edge of crime.

In a previous life, she was a stripper and the owner of a night club that got mentioned in a call-girl scandal.