Crime & Mystery

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

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The Ambassador of Doom – Secret weapons plans are stolen and behind the scenes, Washington D.C. is in a panic. Secret Agent “X” flies to Washington to hunt down the spies involved in this treason and bring them to justice.

No Good From a Corpse – Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death.

The Deadly Ones – Three stories about murders and the sociopaths that commit it. A corrupt politician accidentally kills his ex-secretary and has to disappear; an accomplice to fraud gets the the tables turned on her when she tries to kill her partner in crime; and all of the murders surrounding a secret new gunsight.

Kennedy the Con Man – Mr. J. G. Reeder is burdened by an overzealous secretary who brings a case to him. Little does she suspect that that case leads to a much wider conspiracy of fraud and murder.

The Harbor of Death – Strange things are happening at the port. Fear has become part of the longshoremen’s daily routine. ‘Accidents’ have become frequent. Dan Fowler of the FBI goes undercover to get to the bottom of it.

Brand of the Metal Maiden (SAX,22) – Who is the Emperor Zero? And why would he send his henchmen to unleash the hideous poison gas at the rooftop café and murder the patrons?

The Glass Skulls – A murdered man in a limousine leads to a trail of murdered men and a collection of glass skulls.

Red Harvest – The Original Poisonville Stories – Poisonville is the original set of four novelettes from 1927 and 1928 that were edited together to become the novel Red Harvest. The Continental Op is sent on assignment to a mining town in Montana to do “some business.” The man he was supposed to meet was murdered before he got to meet him.

The Continental Op – 1928 – 1928 was a seminal year for Dashiell Hammett. He ended the series of stories known as the Poisonville stories that were later turned into the novel “Red Harvest.” Later in the year he began the series of stories that were turned into the novel “The Dain Curse.”

The Continental Op-1927 – From ‘The Big Knockover’ to the beginnings of the Poisonville stories, 1927 was a very important year for Dashiell Hammett.

English Knife – Four Stories: A kidnapping for love, a ship full of Nazi spies, a robbery/homicide and a man who snapped. A full line-up of crime.

My Flesh is Sweet – On the run in Mexico from the accidental killing of a drunken Mexican general, Ad Conners and Eleana Hayes must somehow make it back across the border to confront a decades-old secret that could destroy them both.