A Dagbur Agradamian espionage tale. This time, the press takes note of his surprising appearance at a business meeting of one of Agradamian's oil companies, which shocked the rival company that was trying to take it over… ...
Pander wore dark glasses and fancy suspenders and he moved into the San Pietro rackets like a sandblaster gone berserk. <P> Fell, the boss, was mysteriously away and Pander grabbed the chance to bury his hands in the heavy money. Then Fell came back. At his side was Cripp, the human adding machine with the beautiful face and the twisted leg. <P> With them came murder… wholesale. ...
Collected here are 20 tales of darkest crime and criminals, by some of the foremost mystery writers of the pulp era. Included are:<P> THE ART OF MURDER, by Norman A. Daniels<BR> SEX MURDER IN CAMERON, by Michael Fessier<BR> HOT-MOTOR HOMICIDE, by Norman Ober<BR> “GIVE ME A BREAK,” by Norman Struber<BR> EAR-WITNESS, by Maurice Beam<BR> THE GENTLEST OF THE BROTHERS, by David Alexander<BR> AUTHOR’S A ...
Officer Harper takes a pair of reports of leopard sightings in Mombasa and manages to track the beast to a baobob grove off the coast. Then he hatches a scheme for a promotion, with the help of the beast… ...
Joe South was a pretty good detective but he’d been a little careless and lost his license. That made it tough because Joe had two dependents—a punch-drunk pug named Kierney and the suave, aristocratic Englishman who called himself David Carton. Then there was May Sands, provocative and independent New York model. Joe didn’t support her, but that wasn’t because he didn’t want to.<P> So you can see why Joe South was a pushover for any sort ...
For fifty years fear of the vanishing red house in the Jersey Barrens had warped the lives of Ellen and Pete Yocum.<P> Old Pete swore that the house moved from place to place and that screams heard within it put a hex on anyone who ventured near.<P> Meg Yarrow, raised by the Yocums since childhood, experienced the same terror until Nathan, the new farmhand, arrived. One day they started on a search for the red house in the Oxhead w ...
