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Bourbon Street Beat: The Taste of Ashes (1959)
Based heavily on a 1957 novel of the same title as the episode
The novel was written by Howard Browne, who also co-authored the script for this episode as well as many other Warner Brothers TV episodes in the late-'50s/early-'60s when their Westerns and private eye shows were ubiquitous. Of interest is the novel takes place in Chicago, obviously moved to New Orleans for the show. But many of the character names were transferred directly to the TV episode, in particular the Delastones. In the novel the lead private eye is named Philip Pine, and unlike the TV show he was not partnered with the deceased Sam Jellco as they had Rex Randolph be. Funny watching the episode before having read the book I thought the character names Delastone and Jellco sounded very Louisiana-like, and was surprised to find that Browne had created those names for Chicago. In the book Phil Pine was only slightly acquainted with Sam Jellco, and becomes involved when Jellco's wife hires him to find him. Anyway, highly recommend both the book and the TV episode.