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Sleep With The Devil by Day Keene Sleep With The Devil – Ferron was part hoodlum, part gigolo, a guy who’d break your arm as quick as he’d look at you. Suddenly his whole world began to shatter with unspeakable savagery. More Classic Writers More by Day Keene You Might Also Like

Seven Lies South – An American expat gets unwittingly drawn into a plot to hide an ex-Nazi’s corruption and dirty secrets. An ex-Nazi officer, a British grifter and a Canadian gold digger each want to use a broken American pilot to further their individual grafts.

Sand In The Snow – When attorney Jim Daniels takes a mid-winter vacation to Southern California to placate his wife, he steps into a nightmare of murder and a years-old secret of fraud and corruption.

The Big Knockover – A slick, well-oiled gang hit San Francisco’s financial heart like a flash flood. They stormed the vaults of the city’s biggest banks, cleaned out every penny, then vanished into thin air—like they were never there at all.

Just One More Case – four stories of jewel thefts, frame-ups, intimidation, and murder by one of the most popular writers of the pulp era.

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.

Moons in Gold – When a rare set of golden opals appear, various jewel thieves go on a chase to steal them, that takes them from Paris to London to Egypt to China. Their trails are littered with dead bodies.

War Stories – a collection of five early stories by John D. MacDonald, of private wars, espionage and old soldiers.

Married to Murder and Other Stories by Norman A. Daniels (1905–1995), a collection of classic crime stories and novelettes by one of the most prolific of pulp mystery writers.