Mystery & Detective

Don't Call Me Madame

by Henry Kane

The game of murder: it's not a pretty game. The players are weird. They don't fit in with normal people, sensible people - people who don't get a kick out of shoving in the knife, ripping through the flesh,...

Death of a Dastard

by Henry Kane

Jason Touraine was irresistible to dissatisfied wives, lonely women, and roving females on the make. He had innocent eyes, an athlete's body . . . and a tape recorder fashioned to look like a busy man's attaché...

Armchair in Hell

by Henry Kane

When a lush brunette turns up unexpectedly dead in a stranger's bed, and an antique dealer (who is "mostly legit") settles down in an easy chair with a dagger in his back, and a big-time gambler drops all bets...

Trigger Mortis

by Frank Kane

Johnny Liddell, private investigator, is not accustomed to a quiet life. But life was never less quiet for him than after he was called in by Celeste Pierce, a redhead who is giving several famous bosomy blondes...

Red Hot Ice

by Frank Kane

A case of corpses.

They piled up so fast that private eye Johnny Liddell figured he was ahead if he found them while they were still warm.

It started when he was hired as a baby-sitter to a wildcat. She was blonde...

Dead Weight

by Frank Kane

He stood in the doorway to the kitchen, his arms above his head, his long, bony fingers curled like claws. His teeth were bared in a horrible fixed grin, his eyes stared unblinkingly. Two thin wires suspended...

A Short Bier

by Frank Kane

"Kiely of the Dispatch, Liddell. A reporter of mine, Larry Jansen, had been murdered. I want you to find the killer."

"Okay," Liddell sighed into the phone, replacing the receiver. He stared into the slanted...

A Real Gone Guy

by Frank Kane

She called herself Denny Lyons ... and she was everything men dreamed of on long, lonely nights ...

She had it all, from the white-gold hair that framed her expensive face to the graceful, slender ankles-and...

The Anatomy of Violence

by Charles Runyon

The day Laura Crewes was named the town's Beauty Queen was also the day she was seized, blindfolded and cruelly violated. Only the fact that she never saw her violator's face saved her life.

But the fiend didn't...

Murder Queen High

by Bob Wade & Bill Miller

Barselow was used to having his orders obeyed in Azure City. But when he gave orders that the Queen must be found, he ran into unexpected opposition.

For there were other determined to find the Queen ... Determined...

The Bloody Bokhara

by William Campbell Gault

Lee Kaprelian, the son of an Armenian rug merchant, unwittingly gets involved into a murder plot by a woman no less beautiful than she is mysterious.

I'll Call Every Monday

by Orrie Hitt

The first published novel of Orrie Hitt!

Nicky Weaver is an insurance man with a policy of loving women. Each Monday he goes out to collect money for the insurance he's sold, he conducts business with a bevy...

Scott Free

by Marijane Meaker

Transgender insurance investigator Scotti House gets caught up in a kidnapping plot among the rich in the Hamptons.

The Young and Violent

by Vin Packer

Gober Gonzalves is the leader of a teenage gang known as the 'Kings of the Earth.' This week he is planning to rumble over a girl he no longer cares for. Red Eyes de Jarro is a member of the gang, as is Tea...

Park Avenue Tramp

by Fletcher Flora

During one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo's and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player and a man with a bum heart. Yancy the bartender knows that...

The Prettiest Girl I Ever Killed

by Charles Runyon

Accidents happen, but the town of Sherman seems to have more than its fair share of the fatal kind. Someone falls into a well, another drowns, another is killed by an exploding stove. Curt Friedland comes back...

The Convertible Hearse

by William Campbell Gault

Now who would kill a used-car salesman? In a city like L.A., Brock Callahan figures there's about a million suspects-each with a motive.

Nevertheless, the former gridiron star turned private eye is hired by the...

Tweak the Devil's Nose

by Richard Deming

It was just Manny Moon's luck - or misfortune - that he decided to dine at El Patio the evening the Lieutenant Governor was shot.

Give the Girl a Gun

by Richard Deming

Manny Moon is back! (also published as Whistle Past the Graveyard)

Sweet Wild Wench

by William Campbell Gault

She was slim and she was stacked and the gold of her hair matched the gold of her bank account.

In a word, she had everything. The trouble was she was too eager to give it away. The money too.

I'm Joe Puma. I...