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Homicide Hunch – Four Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories by Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968).

Sleeping Dogs and Other Stories by Robert Leslie Bellem
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective was a typical hardboiled private eye, who just happened to work the back lots and bedrooms of Hollywood. The vain film stars, the arrogant producers, the scheming agents and an endless array of glamorous female “starlets” were his clientele. Here are four stories from the casebook of Dan Turner by Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968).

Phony Shakedown – Four Stories of Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective by Robert Leslie Bellem
Dan Turner was a hard-boiled gumshoe who worked the mean streets and back lots of the film studios of Hollywood, encountering murderers, blackmailers, greedy producers, seductive starlets, desperate has-beens and immoral grifters.

Publicity for the Corpse – Two Johnny Castle Novelettes by C.S. Montanye
Johnny Castle was a New York sports writer. Castle was tougher than most sports writers and it’s a good thing he was – he always seemed to wind up in the middle of a murder.

Murder Breeds Murder – Two Novelettes by Carl G. Hodges
Two classic crime novelettes by Carl G. Hodges (1902-1964).

Date With Murder and Other Stories by Harold Q. Masur
Date With Murder – four stories of crime and death by Harold Q. Masur (1909-2005).