The Store

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 Log of a Cowboy – An account of a five-month drive of 3,000 head of cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana during 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail.

Baron Münchhausen’s Scientific Adventures – In these thirteen tales, Baron Münchhausen is proven to have not actually died in 1797 as was assumed. He along with his companion Professor Flitternix went on to become the first men to explore the moon and even the planet Mars.

The Glass Skulls – A murdered man in a limousine leads to a trail of murdered men and a collection of glass skulls.

Too Tough to Kill – Fate rewards a businessman with a rotten hand so he joins the Foreign Legion. Thinking he will be assigned to combat and die in battle, Fate hands him another role and he becomes too tough to kill.

Invisible Death – Two novelettes about madmen who want to conquer the world. Both stories were about the revenge that spurned egotistical men will wreak upon the world when they don’t get their ways. Both stories reveal weak men in positions of advantage as the aspiring autocrats of their fantasies.

Red Harvest – The Original Poisonville Stories – Poisonville is the original set of four novelettes from 1927 and 1928 that were edited together to become the novel Red Harvest. The Continental Op is sent on assignment to a mining town in Montana to do “some business.” The man he was supposed to meet was murdered before he got to meet him.

The Brain Thief – From countering the insidious effects of forced hypnotism to mitigating the consequences of robbing a lamasery, Jules de Grandin must step into the fray with the powers of the occult.

The Continental Op – 1928 – 1928 was a seminal year for Dashiell Hammett. He ended the series of stories known as the Poisonville stories that were later turned into the novel “Red Harvest.” Later in the year he began the series of stories that were turned into the novel “The Dain Curse.”