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Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary (1899-1987) is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie ‘Laura.’ Serialized over seven weeks in Collier’s Weekly Magazine, it is the story of a New York City career woman mistakenly thought murdered in her own apartment and the three men most affected: her narcissistic former lover, her philandering fiancee, and the hardboiled detective assigned to investigate her case.

Mystery Mile – An attempted murder on a liner making a transatlantic crossing, a suicide, blackmail, a kidnapping, and the only clue – a chess piece – a red knight left to Albert Campion in the dead man’s suicide letter.

Tarzan of the Apes (T1) – The story of Tarzan, born of man, who becomes the King of the Apes, and who must find his humanity again.

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini – While attending to some of the rebels wounded at the Battle of Sedgemoor, Dr. Peter Blood is arrested. He is convicted of treason and sentenced to slave labor in the Crown Colony of Barbados.

Voodoo Express by Theodore Roscoe – two novelettes about Haiti, voodoo, zombies, shrunken heads and drums – the incessant drumming from the hills that drives men mad.

The Fabulous Clipjoint is a coming-of-age story that begins when Ed’s father is murdered in a back alley in Chicago. Ed and his Uncle Ambrose investigate and Ed learns a great deal about life and death.

The Spider Lily – When Alec Linn came back home from navigating a bomber in World War II, he expected his wife Lily to meet him at the train station. When he found her dead later that night he was arrested as the murderer. But something didn’t add up because he knew he didn’t do it.

The Valley of Creation – A group of mercenaries takes a job to help a rebel group secede from a tribe in the lost wilds of Tibet. What they find is a nightmare of men and intelligent animals fighting together against the rebel group.

The Navy Spy Murders – A Japanese spymaster has left a trail of bodies in his quest to uncover the Navy’s secrets and Dan Fowler of the F.B.I. has been called in to stop the deaths as well as the flood of stolen secrets.