crime

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.

Red Terror – The folly of taking a shortcut in an area he doesn’t know leads a man into a fight for his life between factions of the Russian Revolution.

Tropic Terror – When revolutionaries start to murder people in Puerto Rico, Special Agent Dan Fowler of the F.B.I. is sent down there to clean up the problem.

The Big Knockover – A slick, well-oiled gang hit San Francisco’s financial heart like a flash flood. They stormed the vaults of the city’s biggest banks, cleaned out every penny, then vanished into thin air—like they were never there at all.

Moons in Gold – When a rare set of golden opals appear, various jewel thieves go on a chase to steal them that takes them from Paris to London to Egypt to China. Their trails are littered with dead bodies.

Seven Lies South – An American expat gets unwittingly drawn into a plot to hide an ex-Nazi’s corruption and dirty secrets. An ex-Nazi officer, a British grifter and a Canadian gold digger each want to use a broken American pilot to further their individual grafts.

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.

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.

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.