Songfacts®:

• Gene Simmons of Kiss wrote "Murder In High-Heels" with Mitch Weissman, best known for portraying Paul McCartney in Beatlemania. In the 2019 book Take It Off: Kiss Truly Unmasked, Weissman told the story:
  
  "Gene would come over to my little second apartment on 74th Street and we would write there. Toni, my first wife, was a photographer, and she took pictures that ended up as the police photos of Luther in Runaway [a role Simmons portrayed in the 1984 film starring Tom Selleck], when they show a quick scan of him from his file of arrest pictures. But he's still there, and I've got the demo of the song playing on the Portastudio, and he said, 'We need a lyric here.' And I just went, 'You know she could, she's a get rich bitch, you better get her while the getting's good.' He said, 'Write that down!' Because we were just in the mood of writing like a guy like that. We would just sing and see what comes out, and a lot of times a line would come out completely."
• This is the last song on Kiss' 12th album, Animalize - this was during their no-makeup period. It's one of three songs Mitch Weissman co-wrote on the album, along with "While the City Sleeps" and "Get All You Can Take."