The girl had lost her guitar-playing boyfriend, but he had left her the most deadly legacy of all – fear. And now it was up to me to protect her from the gun-carrying thugs who were relentlessly tracking her down. Hoodlums, hootenannies, and homicide! <P> #10 in the Mac detective series! <P> "Mac is one of our best private eyes." – San Francisco Chronicle <P> "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's s ...
One-legged detective Manville «Manny» Moon returns for the second classic case! <P> "Manville 'Manny' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He's tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he's a whole lot more. He's pulp, through and through, but he also displays a compassionate side that neatly echoes or anticipates Lew Archer, Dan Fortune et al." – thri ...
When Lawrence Randall offers detective Manville «Manny» Moon a cool $1,500 for a couple days low-risk work, he should have known there would be a catch. And sure enough, there is – enough that he should have charged double…<P> Moon doesn't put up with nonsense. And once he's on a case, he won't stop until he sees it through to the end. Never mind that he only has one leg (lost in the second World War…it's 1948). He alw ...
Our second volume of Fletcher Flora’s crime and mystery stories collects 20 more tales by the classic author. Included this time are:<P> HELL HAS NO FURY<BR> THE CLOSING TRAP<BR> HELL FOR HANNAH<BR> THE COLLECTOR COMES AFTER PAYDAY<BR> FAIR GAME<BR> MAY I COME IN?<BR> KILL ME TOMORROW<BR> TRESPASSER<BR> MOST AGREEABLY POISONED<BR> SOUNDS AND SMELLS<BR> A COOL SWIM ON A ...
Lousy Lou Ousley, the detective, has been given another impossible case: the murder or suicide of a crackpot novelist in a locked room. Everything points to suicide but there’s the sticky point of the gun being made of wax. And what’s with the bottle on the desk with a deuce of diamonds inside it? In this novel, written in 1958 but never published anywhere until now, Harry Stephen Keeler pulls out all the stops and creates a tale that Arthur Con ...
At the time of its publication, 1932, this was the longest mystery ever written. Would you believe, 313,000 words – many of them in a strange Hispano-German dialect. It's a simple story about world war in 1942 between an alliance between Germany, Japan, and Mexico against the US and the rest of the world. 3D TV figures prominently, as well as a cactus that proves to be the world's most perfect food source. A remarkable novel, far ahead ...
