Prologue Books

Anything But Saintly

by Richard Deming

Prostitution, dope, gambling, and murder!

As a town, St. Cecilia was anything but saintly-prostitution, dope, gambling, the works. Matt Rudd of the Vice Squad had the lurid inside story. But he was helpless as...

The Name is Chambers

by Henry Kane

A night-club owner gunned down at his own bar-an editor gutted with an antique switchblade-a smuggler who took five shots in the back-a millionaire whose "suicide" didn't make sense ...

Each killing left the...

Never Give a Millionaire an Even Break

by Henry Kane

It's nice to be a millionaire.

Money can buy you darn near anything. It can buy you things you're only supposed to get for love. It can buy you the best-looking women-in a city where good-looking women come high....

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...

Kisses of Death

by Henry Kane

The first night with her led to a file of blackmail photographs worth a fortune.

The second night with her led to danger, violence, and sudden death.

The third night with her led to the one mistake no private...

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...

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...

Death of a Hooker

by Henry Kane

Beverly Crystal had a million-dollar idea and a circle of "friends" who would never force her to hunt around for enemies.

The happy crew included:

Danny the Dance: who waltzed his way through life like a man sliding...

Death of a Flack

by Henry Kane

Lady on the Make:

She was a gorgeous Greek with a classic chassis. When she smoldered her way into a hot tumble with Peter Chambers, the fast-living private eye didn't know whether he was in heaven, or tangling...

Dead in a Bed

by Henry Kane

Take a beautiful woman - no, take two or even three beautiful women, take some money, throw in a con man and a hustler or two, even a rich and respected publisher and a bank v.p. won't hurt. Add people's natural...

Verdict Suspended

by Helen Nielsen

Intricacy, expertise, substance-all are here in this latest of Helen Nielsen's absorbing mysteries.

"Homicide, by person or persons unknown," was the judgment of the coroner's jury-but for Jaime Dodson, brother...

The Severed Key

by Helen Nielsen

Was the crash deliberately contrived, a diabolical piece of sabotage, or was it cruelly fortuitous? Simon Drake-Miss Nielsen's very personable and popular lawyer-detective-happens to be at the airport at the...

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...

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...

Shot on Location

by Helen Nielsen

The filming of an American movie set on location in Greece becomes the stage for a far more sinister production in this unputdownable political suspense. Rich and famous movie directors like Harry Avery don't...

Obit Delayed

by Helen Nielsen

The melody of death ...

Down at the edge of Mexican town, where the pavement gives out and the yellow dust drifts ankle deep over the hard packed adobe, a radio is moaning a dreamy beat into the night. It is...

False Witness

by Helen Kane

Markham Grant knew he was sane. He knew he had seen a murder. But two days later he fell passionately in love with the woman who had been killed.

Who was the man he had seen strangling her?

Or was she going to...

Dead on the Level

by Helen Nielsen

As in her sensational first offering, Helen Nielsen has again come up with a fast-paced and remarkably readable mystery. It begins when a gorgeous girl makes an incredible proposal, and ends when a would-be...

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...

A Killer in the Street

by Helen Nielsen

It was a Tuesday night in November, 1962. Rain fell slow and steady in Manhattan, slanting hard on near-deserted sidewalks and streets pocked by the occasional twin circles of approaching headlamps. Taxis spawned...