crime

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.

Death Stalks the Night – Shudderry thrills aplenty as the Acid Murderer roams the city, leaving death in his trail.

Bet On Murder – Three stories of kidnapping, murder, frame-ups, greed and espionage on the World War II home front.

Monsieur Dupin – The Detective Tales of Edgar Allan Poe – With the stories in this collection, Edgar Allan Poe is considered to have founded the genre of detective fiction. These five stories introduced the character of Auguste Dupin and gave us the foundation of “Ratiocination” (or deductive reasoning) from which later detectives such as Sherlock Holmes would claim their fame.

The Torture Trust (SAX,1) – In this, the debut of Secret Agent “X”, the Agent must match wits with a coterie of criminals that uses torture and murder to extract ransoms from prominent figures.

Murder on the Soundstage and Other Stories – Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, gets caught in the middle of some jealous lovers and some double crossed deals and barely makes it out alive. Jealous actors, big time producers, even some members of the production crews get caught up by the green eyed monster.

Curse of the Crimson Horde (SAX,39) – Secret Agent X — man of a thousand faces and conqueror of kings of crime — found himself parried by the ageless weapons and black magic of the Far East.