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Murder Wheel and Other Stories – From gangsters carving out territories, to a serial killer preying upon young nurses, to the quest to recover a holy Tibetan prayer wheel, there is plenty of murder to go around.

The Screaming Mimi – Bill Sweeney is a down-and-out lush. He is also a top-notch reporter. Aroused by the naked beauty of the Ripper’s fourth victim — or near-victim — Sweeney pulls himself together and goes after the killer.

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

Wings For An Angel – Three Johnny Castle Novelettes by C.S. Montanye
Johnny Castle was a New York sports reporter. 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.

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.

Tong Law – When Valtier is poisoned on the riverboat Madelon, Roper and Walters join forces to track down the legend of the ‘Hanoi Emerald.’

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

No Good From a Corpse – Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death.

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.