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42 DAYS FOR MURDER
Roger Torrey

Why wouldn't Tod Wendel's wife speak to him? Between the wealthy society woman and her husband stood the forces of the underworld-gangsters, white slavers, dope runners-and Shean Connell breaks the case in the hardest-hitting, lustiest mystery novel since Dashiell Hammett.

ABOUT FACE
Frank Kane

A Johnny Liddell Mystery: IT STARTED OUT AS A DOG OF A CASE--with Johnny Liddell keeping tabs on a drunken movie star for a fat producer. But it picked up interest when the actor was found dead in a phony auto accident.

THE ART TREASURE MURDERS
John L. Benton

Stephen Duane had a justly famous record with the FBI and through a maze of violent action and stealthy murder, he traces the ART TREASURE MURDERS to their startling denouement.

BEHIND THE MASK
Erle Stanley Gardner

From the author of Perry Mason, this is the four novelette series of stories starring the private detective Bob Crowder.

THE BLACK BAT'S DRAGON TRAIL
G. Wayman Jones

A scourge of the underworld plays the role of Hooded Avenger to foil a murder master’s plans!

THE BLACK BAT'S SPY TRAIL
G. Wayman Jones

Battling valiantly against sabotage, wholesale murder, and espionage, the Nocturnal Champion of the Victims of Crime flies into the Valley of Death-Ready to fight grim traitors bullet for bullet and blow for blow!

A BLONDE FOR MURDER
Walter B. Gibson

ARDINI, the famous Magician, was more pleased than surprised when his hand-picked "volunteer" from the audience was replaced by 110 pounds of lovely glamour running across his stage, chased by a bulky figure waving a pistol.

BODIES IN BEDLAM
Richard S. Prather

She was a red-hot starlet at Magna Studios. She didn't have a gun. She didn't need one. She had all the weapons that have ruined men since time immemorial and she knew how to use them.

CAPTAIN COLT
Frederick C. Painton

Captain Lansing Colt, chief agent for Smithson Munitions Corporation, seller of weapons and ammunition to the world, in his first four adventures.

THE CASES OF STUART BAILEY
Roy Huggins

This book contains the final three Stuart Bailey stories: "Appointment With Fear", "Now You See It", and "Death and the 'Skylark'".

CITY OF FEAR
Erle Stanley Gardner

Steel and men, Hard Rock Hogan learned spanning a continent with rails; and he knew these men who ruled a city were no different, although their stell vomited from a chattering tommy.

DEAD MAN'S DIARY
Brett Halliday

“When a man thinks he’s going to die he tells things he wouldn’t dream of telling otherwise--things that wouldn’t look good in print.”

DEADLY CURVES
Edward S. Aarons

The gripping tale of a treacherous beauty and the two men she turned into fugitives.

DEALING OUT DEATH
W. T. Ballard

IN JAM STOP NEED TWENTY THOUSAND AT ONCE STOP TELL NO ONE

Bill Lennox read the telegram, then looked at the blonde. She was a very nice blonde with long, willowy legs and purple eyes. "Tell him to go to hell".

THE DELICATE DARLING
Jack Webb

It started with a missing poet, a fire, and a half-strangled girl. But before it was over Sergeant Sammy Golden and his friend Father Shanley found themselves faced with the double headache of foreign intrigue and triple murder.

THE DOUBLE TAKE
Roy Huggins

Stuart Bailey is a private investigator, of very much the same stripe as Perry Mason of the Erle Stanley Gardner books, and, in common with Mason and others of the same fictional feather, manages to get himself so involved with criminals and garden-variety crooks that soon he becomes the subject of some rather heated investigations himself.

HUNT THE KILLER
Day Keene

He was an ex-con walking the last steps toward freedom after four years in prison....

THE ICEPICK ARTIST
Frank Kane

Liddell leaned back on the couch, lit a cigarette. After a few moments, the blonde re-appeared in the bedroom door. “Jackpot! He was there.”

THE INSIDIOUS DOCTOR FU-MANCHU
Sax Rohmer

The mysterious Fu-Manchu, one of the most appalling of characters, in one of the most thrilling stories ever penned.

LOOKS THAT KILL!
Walter B. Gibson

VALDOR, the master mind reader, saw clearly the horrifying vision of Arlene . . . unconscious, bound and gagged . . . he saw a mysterious Egyptian room filled with a deadly poison gas . . . and he knew that two women had clashed over one man!

MURDER IN THE GUNROOM
H. Beam Piper

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict was "death by accident." But Gladys Fleming had her doubts.

MURDER PLAYS CHARADES
Brett Halliday

Magicians who perform startling feats do not as a rule wind up murdered. But Mike had some grave and dangerous misgivings on that score.

NEGATIVE OF A NUDE
Charles E. Fritch

STRIKE A POSE FOR DEATH

NO MODEST MAYHEM
Robert Leslie Bellem

Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, investigates three cases of murder.

SECRET AGENT "X" Book 2: THE SPECTRAL STRANGLER
Brant House

Screams of terror throttled by a ghostly garroter! Lips sealed by a death so awful that men turned their eyes away! A genius of evil flung a challenge in the path of Secret Agent “X”.

SILENT DEATH
Erle Stanley Gardner

Four stories, four protagonists, four different crimes. Each hero had his own slant on fighting crime. There are Dudley Bell, Bud Norman, Kayo Macray, and Ben Harper.

SPIES OF DESTINY
John Grange

The Red Dragon roared and murder followed murder!

THE SUICIDE MURDER
Roger Torrey

Murder for insurance is common enough, but this was much more than that. There were angles so intriguing and baffling that the detective almost overlooked the particular hazards involved!

HONEY WEST #1: THIS GIRL FOR HIRE
G. G. Fickling

Naked Eye Honey West--sexiest private eye in L.A. or anywhere else--packs a deadly .32 and a lively 38-22-36--but she keeps losing her clothes

THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT
John A. Saxon

Sam Welpton, investigator and adjuster, Inter-Oceanic Insurance Corporation, or so said his business card. But it was murder he investigated.

THE VICE CZAR MURDERS
Franklin Charles

When Bill went to the stripteaser's room and found her dead, he wanted a crack at solving the crime.

THE WHISPERING EYE & MURDER AMONG THE DYING
G. T. Fleming-Roberts & Wayman Jones

HOODED DETECTIVE in The Whispering Eye. Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara Sutton the girl who loves him ... the Black Hood had to face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's guns to win back Barbara's love and clear himself of the framed charges.

BLACK BAT in Murder Among the Dying. A body hurtles through the air from a skyscraper window--and before it hits the ground the Black Bat is plunged into a baffling mystery of greed and gore! Follow the trail of Tony Quinn as he speeds into the most perilous criminal chase of his career!

 
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