crime

Mission: Murder – Conspiracy, theft, murder and the love of a good woman are the key ingredients to these stories by John D. MacDonald

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.

I’m a Dead Man – Four novelettes of murders committed to cover up fraud and to exact revenge. But as smart as the murderers think they are, they always make a mistake.

42 Days For Murder – It takes six weeks or 42 days to get a quickee divorce in Reno. A lot can happen in 42 days.

Alibi in Red — Eight short stories of murder, robbery, fraud, kidnapping and attempted frames by David X. Manners.

The Haunted Chair – A thrilling novel of murder by light-rays, murder by strange sounds, and murder by tragic perfumes—by the author of “The Phantom of the Opera.”

The nine Continental Op stories written by Dashiell Hammett in 1924.

Carnacki the Ghost Finder – Thomas Carnacki, occult detective, finder of ghosts, demons, and even a few humans pretending to be ghosts.

Moris Klaw, antiques and curios dealer, and part-time detective, sleeps at the scenes of awful crimes so that he might receive a psychic impression of the victim’s (or the perpetrator’s) last thoughts.

Just One More Case – four stories of jewel thefts, frame-ups, intimidation, and murder by one of the most popular writers of the pulp era.

M Is For Murder by Roger Torrey – three stories of crime, corruption and murder by a master of hard-boiled crime fiction: Justice Borrows Bullets (1937), Gun Trap for a Money-Killer (1938), and M Stands For Murder (1944)

The Letter Death Wrote and Other Stories – four hard-boiled stories of murder, blackmail, kidnapping and death by Bruno Fischer.