Crime & Mystery

Crime and Mysteries. Gangsters, Spies, Killers and Mobsters. Sleuths and Detectives.

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Crime On My Hands – George Sanders takes center stage in his first novel (ghostwritten by Craig Rice) to solve a series of murders on the set of his latest movie. Sanders, the well-heeled cad has no choice but to find the killer before the killer’s repeated attempts to kill him succeed.

Pirates! – Two stories of how arrogance and naivete can lead to piracy and murder.

The Continental Op – The Complete Stories – Hammett began writing the Continental Op stories in 1923 and continued writing them until 1930. He wrote thirty-six Continental Op stories in all.

The Continental Op – The Novels – The Big Knockover, Red Harvest and The Dain Curse.

The Continental Op – 1929-30 – The last five of the thirty-six Continental Op stories that Hammett wrote.

Bat Wing – A thrilling tale by Sax Rohmer where the sign of a bat’s wing nailed to a door indicates that the owner has been placed under a voodoo curse and that he is marked for death! Paul Harley must investigate an uncooperative man who is fated to be the victim of this cursed murder.

I.O.U. – Three stories of people on the run and what they do for love.

Brand of the Black Bat – District Attorney Anthony Quinn is blinded by the mugs of a vicious crime boss and his career is destroyed … until he is given a radical surgery that restores his sight. Posing as a permanently blinded man, Quinn secretly becomes The Black Bat – Nemesis of Crime.

The Crook in Crimson – Drug smuggling in London? Mr. J. G. Reeder normally doesn’t concern himself with these kinds of crimes but this time is different.

Millions For a Murderer – Five wealthy industrialists conspire to take over another man’s invention of a secret plastic formulation that can entirely change the course of the war. An escaped convict knows who killed the original inventor but he’s being hunted. Not just by the police but also by the five who stand to make millions.

The Black Bat Strikes Again – A Series of Mass Murders Sets Tony Quinn, Lightning-fast Foe of Crime, on the Trail of a Satanic Ring of Insurance Killers Who Make a Vast Profitable Business of Slaughter!

The Black Bat’s Dragon Trail – When American mobsters join up with a secret Chinese Society, ancient artifacts get stolen that would have helped fund the Chinese war effort. Tony Quinn must rise from his sick-bed and take on this assortment of criminals as the Black Bat.