Mystery & Detective

The Crime is Murder

by Helen Nielsen

Young Marta Cornish was haunted by a heritage of buried scandal and dark desires. Her father-a composer of genius-had died violently and the sinister enigma of his death lingered, poisoning the lives of those...

The Dark Stain

by Benjamin Appel

The Dark Stain is a novel of tremendous force and vitality. It is a story of lust and hatred and passion . . . nakedly portrayed and in words the meaning of which can escape no one. The locale is Harlem, but...

The Broken Doll

by Jack Webb

Million dollar heiress is kidnapped by an unusual pair-a blonde and aex-con-who demand ransom or they will make sure death strikes their victim!

Electrifying, terrifying, spine-tingling, Red-hot mystery thriller...

My Business is Murder

by Henry Kane

Olga was the sexy young wife of an old millionaire. She wore black painted toenails, a small black Luger, and very little else.

Anabel was a talented stripper with an act that drove the customers wild. She wore...

Deadly Weapon

by Wade Miller

Her name was Shasta Lynn-a names as phony as the color of her golden hair. She was big and beautiful, and she knew how to tease when she stripped. She was so sensational no one noticed that an admirer in the...

Stranger in the Dark

by Helen Nielsen

In a neatly handled story with a fresh setting, Helen Nielsen introduces Larry Willis, star salesman for an American farm equipment company, who earned a trip to Copenhagen for a business convention. With four...

Death on the Double

by Henry Kane

The only uninvited guest was-murder!The host and the principal guests at the wildest, wickedest masquerade ball of the society season were:

• A playboy millionaire with more women than is good for the health of...

The Marriage Bed

by H. Vernor Dixon

October 5

Wednesday, 1 a.m.

Tonight I have bruises on my arm. Jeff has just left me. I no longer believe he is the same man I married.

The brother is locked in his study, drinking. His face is the twin of Jeff's,...

The Deadly Sex

by Jack Webb

Detective Sammy Golden was surprised to find her there-in the gaudy apartment of a dangerous diamond smuggler-standing of his dead body with a fortune in diamonds in her bag ... and a pistol in her hand. She...

After Midnight

by Helen Nielsen

A beautiful suspect with an intense desire to kill.

The murder of Roger Warren seemed like an open-and-shut case.

The evening before, Roger and his dazzling wife Wanda had moved from one bar to another, fighting...

Guilty Bystander

by Wade Miller

A kidnapped boy!

A terrified blonde!

A fortune in stolen pearls!

Hardboiled Max Thursday, on-time private eye, had given up being a detective. But when the kidnapped boy turned out to be his own son and the frightened...

The Jet Set

by Mack Reynolds

Larry Land started his European trek with the idea of seeing as much of the continent and its way of life as he could in a year. To pay his way, he photographed celebrities.

That's how he met the notorious Countessa...

The Fatal Foursome

by Frank Kane

The pretty-boy movie star.

The fat producer.

The buxom blackmailer.

The grubby undertaker.

These four people never would have associated with one another runder ordinary circumstances. But they were drawn together...

Hit and Run

by Richard Deming

He never should have gotten into it in the first place. But when you need money, sometimes you things you wouldn't ordinarily think of doing. Nothing illegal, nothing like blackmail, something just a shade this...

Hang by Your Neck

by Henry Kane

Peter Chambers is a private richard who has a real affinity for trouble. He hasn't any notion at all who polished off the nasty blonde with the round hole between her eyes-or the little man swinging by the neck...

Fatal Step

by Wade Miller

Dave Lee was shot dead as he rode the Joyland ferris wheel. As hard-boiled private investigator Max Thursday stalked Dave's killer, he encountered ... a high-powered sob sister, the sadistic king of a gambling...

Deep is the Pit

by H. Vernor Dixon

The beautiful, aristocratic Karen Stannard had married Marty Lee. Too late she found, under his polished manner and his easy smile, a cold-blooded, calculating assassin. She found a man hunted by the women he...

The Bad Blonde

by Jack Webb

Love brought them together-the mysterious blonde and the bitter, lonely piano player.

Murder stood between them-her secret, reluctant role as an accomplice in the vicious plot that caused to brutal slayings!

A...

Uneasy Street

by Wade Miller

When a phony count, a weird artist, and a dazzling blond beauty relentlessly dog his footsteps, hard-hitting private investigator Max Thursday knows his charming personality isn't the attraction. And as soon...

Badge of Evil

by Whit Masterson

A revisit of the 1950s classic that inspired Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil

Assistant District Attorney Mitch Holt suspects the wrong people have been arrested in the murder of Rudy Linneker. But if it wasn't...