Johnny Troy

Pop star from the 1964 novel The Trojan Hearse by Richard S. Prather. Featuring hard-boiled detective Shell Scott, the star of some 30 novels, and a Johnny Troy fan: "I could listen for hours to the golden notes, the sweet sad sound, the richly magnificent tone and phrasing of the voice of Johnny Troy." (p.6)

blurb:

Johnny Troy - America's top pop singer - was dead. Resting peacefully six foot under. Until his fans dug him up in a fury and tore the corpse limb from limb. Why? They had learned the sordid truth about the boy with the golden voice. And the effect of that incident threatened a national ejection, stirred up the Mafia and brought Shell Scott bang into the most incredible case of his life.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Scott