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Stolen jewels, double crosses and murder star in Don’t Meddle With Murder – Three Johnny Castle Novelettes by C.S. Montanye.

The Continental Op -1924 – The nine Continental Op stories written by Dashiell Hammett in 1924.

When Chet Lacey, Private Investigator, deals with the low life grifters that surround high society he finds that guns can be handy things.

The Continental Op – 1928 – 1928 was a seminal year for Dashiell Hammett. He ended the series of stories known as the Poisonville stories that were later turned into the novel “Red Harvest.” Later in the year he began the series of stories that were turned into the novel “The Dain Curse.”

Death Has An Escort – Three hard-boiled stories about showgirls, heiresses, love, pleasure, blackmail and murder by Roger Torrey.

The Crook in Crimson – Drug smuggling in London? Mr. J. G. Reeder normally doesn’t concern himself with these kinds of crimes but this time is different.

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu was an evil genius and a connoisseur of exotic murder. He disdained the use of guns and knives, favoring exotic poisons, insects, fungi and the use of dacoits, thuggees, and other members of secret societies to effect his will.

Nemesis – two stories, one of a very clever plan gone awry, and the other of a conspiracy to frame a random innocent man for murder.

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.