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Phony Shakedown – four stories from the casebook of Dan Turner. Turner was a hard-boiled gumshoe who worked the mean streets and back lots of the film studios of Hollywood, encountering murderers, blackmailers, greedy producers, seductive starlets, desperate has-beens and immoral grifters.

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.

Focus On Death – Five Stories from the Casebooks of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Dan Turner deals with the usual assortment of lowlifes in Hollywood: actors, directors, producers, agents, thieves, blackmailers and murderers.

Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie ‘Laura.’

Black Murder – Four hard-boiled stories of greed, robbery, black market bootleggers and cold-blooded murder by Roger Torrey.

The Torture Trust (SAX,1) – In this, the debut of Secret Agent “X”, the Agent must match wits with a coterie of criminals that uses torture and murder to extract ransoms from prominent figures.

Publicity For The Corpse – Three Johnny Castle Novelettes – Johnny Castle was a New York sports writer. Castle was tougher than most sports writers and it’s a good thing he was – he always seemed to wind up in the middle of a murder.

The Navy Spy Murders – A Japanese spymaster has left a trail of bodies in his quest to uncover the Navy’s secrets and Special Agent Dan Fowler of the F.B.I. has been called in to stop the deaths as well as the flood of stolen secrets.

Clues in the Dark and Other Stories – six stories of murder committed by mobsters, dirty cops, and bank robbers.