The Twisted Thing by Mickey Spillane - Goodreads
COUNTDOWN: Mid-20th Century North American Crime BOOK 52 (of 250) In an introduction, Max Allan Collins tells us this novel was originally titled "For Whom the Gods Would Destroy" but the publishers, Dutton, rejected it and "Spillane returned to the comic book field where, among other things, he wrote love comics." And "Twisted Thing" was to follow the Spillane/Hammer 1947 novel, "I, The Jury".