Hitman (and used car dealer) Pete Borelli is promised a Van Gogh for a mercy-killing job on an in-law. But the man he has to kill has good reason to hate him… ...
“Exhibition Extraordinary!” So began the poster advertising the professional debut of Simon Grundt, formerly of the Lincoln School for the Feeble-minded. How the police could choose Simon to solve the murder of Casimer Jech, rare bookdealer, is a tale only Harry Stephen Keeler could have chronicled. Before it’s done you’ll meet ex-con Luke McCracken, ’bo Tom Steever, landlady Sadie Hippolyte, inventor Dirk Mattox and his fiancee Iolanthe Silvert ...
The story is told through a series of classified ads, which begin with an advertisement of a rich bereaved widow looking for a renter for her estate. Further ads show evidence of a possible conspiracy and the marriage of the widow, Mrs. Thelma McCarson and the tenant, Mr. Larry Summers… ...
It wasn’t his case…his girl…or his problem…but Johnny Liddell had a personal interest in this little caper. <P> He didn’t ask to be the Feds’ “receiver” on a pass of inside info on the smuggling racket, but he was. He didn’t ask to have a couple of hoods beat the living daylights out of him to get the info back, but they did. As a matter of fact, for the first time in his life, Johnny Liddell wasn’t asking for trouble. <P> But wh ...
Toper Kelly died on the main street of Fox River at three o’clock on a chilly October morning, his life finished by a hit-and-run driver. At seven I sat at my desk in the sheriffs office and listened to Julio explain that all he could do was send Toper’s body to the hospital for examination by Dr. Blenheim and pick up the broken glass from the shattered headlight, which was the only physical evidence to be found… ...
Quiribus Brown, probably the only 7-and-a-half-foot-tall mathematical detective in the Midwest, has got to solve the mystery of who killed Professor Munstergale, or he’ll never get his rightful inheritance. Luckily, Munstergale lived long enough to draw on a blackboard two diagrams, one pointing to his killer, and the other pointing to where he knew the killer from. There are two theories, both involving prominent citizens as suspects, and Inspe ...
Kinley and Sweeney are Secret Service agents sent to a tiny island in the Pacific used as a checkpoint by the military. The natives there have assaulted numerous American agents stationed there, at the behest of an enemy agent named Peretti. ...
He never should have gotten into it in the first place. But when you need money, sometimes you do things you wouldn't ordinarily think of doing. Nothing illegal, nothing like blackmail, something just a shade this side. At least that was the way Barney Calhoun had it figured. It looked like the easiest ten thousand bucks he'd ever make. And she was lovely, though in the end she led him to murder…<P> An ex-cop turned private eye ...
