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Originally published in 1952. An open and shut case of murder! Matt Ranzino had sworn off sleuthing, he'd had a bellyful of violence. But when a beautiful blonde was murdered and Matt was asked to solve the crime, he took the job. When the blonde's husband committed suicide, the cops named him the killer and closed the case. But Matt smelled a put-up job. He knew the real killer -- but why risk his life to prove it? Then he met Mady, the only ...

Energetic sleuth David Carroll, whose probe into police corruption has made him unpopular at headquarters, is put in charge of an investigation into the shooting murder of civic reformer Edward Hamilton-and the three people trying to confess to the crime!

The Statute was knee-high, but it carried a fortune in gold and gems, plus centuries of fame in the art world. Everyone wanted it, and for some no price was too high-love, money, or murder... then Johnny Killain stepped in. The Redhead made the first pitch, and she had Killain twanging like a hopped-up fiddle-but not one note about the statue.

Originally published in 1941. The nightmare tale of the life and death of Dillon, American gangster. From the first to the last page, the ruthlessness of an inhuman killer is set down with stark realism. Chase's second book.

Once he had belonged to the stark and brutal days, days of manhunts and sudden violence. Now Owen Toller had a farm and a family. Until the Brunner brothers came down from the hills-to murder and plunder, to writer bloodier, more savage history than even the James and the Dalton gangs. Originally published in 1956.

HELP ME FOR GODS SAKE Later the doctors would use these words to decipher the riddle of a perverted killer. Right now, the lipstick scrawl signaled the start of New York's greatest manhunt.

He stands before the court. The crime: Murder in the First Degree. The victime: his wife. They said he killed her. They didn't say why.

I'm George Jackson. And this began about the time when you could still remember getting on the subway for a nickel, people were just starting to worry about the water shortage, and the current expression making the rounds was, "How corny can you get?" "How great can one be?" and the like. I know it sounds insane now, but I remember it because I found the answer to: How smart can you get? The answer to that one is easy: Too smart, brother, much...

1948 Edgar Award Winner! Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants to see the world before it's too late. Then his father doesn't come home one night, and Ed finds out how good he had it. The bulk of the book has Ed teaming up with Uncle Ambrose, a former carny wo...

I picked up a copy of the L.A. Times and turned to "Help Wanted." It came out and slapped me in the face, a big box advertisement: CHAUFFEUR To drive new Rolls Royce saloon and Jaguar XK 120 coupe. Preferable French-speaking, 30 to 35. Family of four, Southern California. Own apt. An excellent position for a high-type man who can qualify. Send full details. Box C-1419. Originally published in 1952.

Mysterious death, suicide, and madness took uncanny toll of New York's most prominent citizens. Only the Spider sensed the presence of the criminal genius whose tentacles were strangling the city- and the Spider was next on the crime monster's death list! Originally published in the 1933.

Originally published in 1953. City detective McCallister, who is incorruptible, Ahern, whom he protects, and Sheridan, whom he dislikes, are assigned to the long vigil to pull in Harry Wheeler-a bank robber.

Murder multiplied by SEVEN! Supercharged action and breath-taking suspense in this carnival of crime from the blood-dripped pen of Paul Cain, a connoisseur of crime who writes in the best homicidal tradition of Hammett and Chandler. This is one collection of spine-tingling murder yarns that you won't read with your back to the door.

I found my love, a tall golden girl, in the cruel, thousand-angled city that was Tokyo, mid-occupation, death-hungry for Mate Buchanan. I am Buchanan. Mate Buchanan, that is, ex-G.I., court marshal and all, sent to this treacherous town on a mission, literally, of life-or holocaust for the world at large. The golden girl is Sandra Tann, the one they call the Witch of Tokyo. The first time I saw her, three men were trying to burn her to death.

She traded hope of heaven for a paradise on earth. She was a sprite, a witch, a perpetual temptation to every man, a soul searing torment to herself, and rough was the road she traveled. First published in February 1952.

When three small-time country gangsters break jail, they return to the only life they know-small-town bank robbing. When Bowie, the youngest of them, falls in love wit Keechie, one of the older gangster's cousins, it becomes a classic tale of love with nowhere to hide and no hope of reprieve. Originally published in 1937.

An investigation into a suicide leads to an investigation of murder. Holding's rarest mystery. First published in 1937.

Two men are killed outside the Grand Cafe on Amsterdam Avenue. There's no connection between them, but the widow of one hires Barney Harris, a 250-pound auto mechanic, to sniff out police corruption and find her husband's killer.

Old Cleave should have known better than to use a whip. But no man ever knew what Beth would do. Her father suspected that she enjoyed killing. Her husband learned the truth too late. And I saw it happen. Saw her and wanted her, and understood least of all. First published in 1951, the Lady Kills is spread out across years, with a newspaperman, a gambler, a young boy, the woman they all loved, and the special way she treats her lovers. Special...

Clayton Biner had it all-swimming pools in California, haciendas in Mexico, blue evenings on the French Riviera, all the women he could use. But he wanted more. And he got it when he became involved with a vicious syndicate peddling heroin-the big H, the white "Horse." Now he was really in the big money-a three-million-dollar bundle of danger and death. Ed Lacy is one of America's all-time best selling authors, with sales of his famous, nerve-...