Victory Red & the Rising Pheonix, Volume 1 of the Burlesque Mystery Series Salt Lake City, Utah-1948. Former WASP Claudette Collins works as a secretary for the city's best Private Investigator, WWII veteran James Matsumoto. When a routine case takes a deadly turn, the two hatch a plan to send Claudette undercover as up-and-coming burlesque dancer, Victory Red. They quickly discover nobody is quite who they seem to be in this glittery world and a killer is closer than they could have imagined.