California

Dynamite – Five Stories by J. Lane Linklater – Murder, kidnapping, and blackmail, on the high seas, in a private mountain compound, in the middle of the city. There’s always a crook who wants whatever he (or she) can take, and is willing to kill to get it.

Beyond The Aurora is a set of two short serials by Ed Earl Repp. The Captain Wollack serial includes The Invisible Raiders and Beyond The Aurora. The James Dowell serial includes The Radium Pool and The Metal World. All four of these stories are from 1929.

Sand In The Snow – When attorney Jim Daniels takes a mid-winter vacation to Southern California to placate his wife, he steps into a nightmare of murder and a years-old secret of fraud and corruption.

An Orange For The Killer – Four Novelettes by J. Lane Linklater.
From the California orange groves, to the melon fields around Mexicali, to the quiet neighborhoods off the main drags of Hollywood, there’s plenty of murder to go around.

The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) is more famously known as The Mark of Zorro. Serialized in All-Story Weekly in 1919, The Curse of Capistrano is the classic tale of the masked avenger Zorro, full of sword fights, horse chases and forbidden romance. Any number of masked and caped heroes can trace their inspirations back to Zorro, but this is the original novel.