Mystery & Detective

Grave Danger

von Frank Kane

ONE-

The redheaded secretary lay crumpled on the office floor, her blouse ripped to the waist. Blood trickled from her mouth.

TWO-

The redheaded divorcee sprawled across the bed, the black silk sheet baring her...

Intimate Victims

von Vin Packer

Somehow he'd ended up with someone else's coat . . . and that act could end Robert Bowser's life before it started.

His hand trembled as he answered the phone.

''Mr. Bowser?''

''Yes.''

''Mr. Bowser, my name is Harvey...

My Lovely Executioner

von Peter Rabe

Jimmy Gallivan is only three-and-a-half weeks from his prison release for trying to kill his wife's lover seven years ago. But fellow-inmate Rand has other plans for Gallivan. A break-out is engineered, and...

Trigger Mortis

von Frank Kane

Johnny Liddell, private investigator, is not accustomed to a quiet life. But life was never less quiet for him than after he was called in by Celeste Pierce, a redhead who is giving several famous bosomy blondes...

Murder Mistress

von Robert Colby

Driving to Miami, Scott Daniels paused to rescue a lady in distress. She was in a road house, abandoned by her date, and so Scott offered Valerie a lift. No sooner had they started off, then they spotted the...

Murder Queen High

von Bob Wade & Bill Miller

Barselow was used to having his orders obeyed in Azure City. But when he gave orders that the Queen must be found, he ran into unexpected opposition.

For there were other determined to find the Queen ... Determined...

The Star Trap

von Robert Colby

She put her head on my shoulder. Her hand slid off my thigh and into my lap, paused. She kissed my ear, lingered there. ''And what are you afraid of?'' she whispered.

''Afraid you'll stop,'' I said against the...

Death Out of Focus

von William Campbell Gault

With the motion picture industry in crisis, things were so tough for independent director Steve Leander that he was put to it to maintain his mortgage, his swimming pool and his attractive young wife. So, reluctantly,...

The Girl's Number Doesn't Answer

von Talmage Powell

Three people were dead, their heads bashed in, their bodies hacked with a samurai sword. All three victims were Japanese. The murder weapon was traced to Nick Martin, a veteran of Iwo Jima. Nick had spent fifteen...

Something in the Shadows

von Vin Packer

Joseph Meaker was a shy, dedicated scholar. To his brash wife, Maggie, and her advertising friends, he was a cipher, easily dismissed. But behind his gentle façade he carried the seeds of violence, subtle and...

Girl on the Best Seller List

von Vin Packer

The book that damned an entire town

FERN FULTON: ''I'm the only friend Gloria Wealdon has in this town. How could she write those dreadful things about me and my husband and our daughter?''

VIRGINIA FULTON, age...

3 Day Terror

von Vin Packer

She was hurrying past the field on her way home when the man stepped out from behind a tree and stood spraddle-legged in her path. Ginny Lee was uncommonly pretty, a small girl with unusually long legs for someone...

With a Madman Behind Me

von Talmage Powell

This one was for keeps.

It started the night private eye Ed Rivers went to the rescue of a damsel in distress and almost ended up at the bottom of Tampa Bay.

Ed knew who was lurking behind him. His name was Russ...

Come Destroy Me

von Vin Packer

He was sixteen the summer he killed the girl - a brown-haired boy painfully aware of beauty and in search of it.

The trouble was, he had a kind of adoration for Jill Latham's cool beauty and her mysticism. So...

This Game of Murder

von Richard Deming

Betty Case opened her eyes, fear gripping her. She lay very still for a moment, listening. Then she heard the sound again, like someone walking on the roof.

Instantly she thought of the cat burglar, who'd been...

Death of a Dastard

von Henry Kane

Jason Touraine was irresistible to dissatisfied wives, lonely women, and roving females on the make. He had innocent eyes, an athlete's body . . . and a tape recorder fashioned to look like a busy man's attaché...

The Thrill Kids

von Vin Packer

The Lesson - According to Kicks . . .

Heine pointed the knife at her. ''O.K., Lady Godiva, take off the blouse.''

She stood motionless, unable to answer or move.

''Go ahead,'' Heine said. ''Take that piece-of-nothing...

Leave Her to Hell

von Fletcher Flora

''Buy me a drink,'' she said.

''I'm too poor,'' I said.

''I'll buy you one.''

''I'm too proud,'' I said.

''In my apartment,'' she said, ''there's Scotch, rye, bourbon - anything you want!''

''Anything?''

''Anything!''...

The Quaking Widow

von Robert Colby

Her fortune was the price on her head

Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor, but he wasn't getting very far - until the day she escaped from a strange roadside...

The Killer is Mine

von Talmage Powell

The dirtiest killer of the year was the man private investigator Ed Rivers had to save from the chair.

Wally Tulman, Florida socialite, had been convicted of molesting and murdering a young girl.

Tulman's lovely...