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The Crime at Black Dudley – A house party is under way at the Black Dudley, a remote, ancient and sprawling manor house with a long and complex history. A variety of guests are present including some odd foreign guests and a Mr. Albert Campion, who no one seems to know.

Sleeping Dogs and Other Stories by Robert Leslie Bellem Sleeping Dogs and Other Stories – Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective was a typical hardboiled private eye, who just happened to work the back lots and bedrooms of Hollywood. The vain film stars, the arrogant producers, the scheming agents and an endless array of glamorous female …

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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.

Murder on the Soundstage – Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, gets caught in the middle of some jealous lovers and some double crossed deals and barely makes it out alive.

Homicide Hunch – Dan 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.

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.

Death’s Halo – four stories from the casebook of Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective. Opium, sex slaves, blackmail, and plenty of murder, feature in the seamy side of the movie business.

Everybody’s Watching Me – Vetter sent a kid to deliver a note to Renzo saying that Vetter is going to kill Renzo because he had Cooley killed. Vetter is known for knocking off a lot of mobsters but no one knows who Vetter is. Renzo better find Vetter first or prepare to die.

The Book of the Phantom Bullet – Five stories from the casebook of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective.

The Fourth Corpse and Other Stories – Five stories of vicious gangsters, sleazy grifters, and a pickpocket that saves the day, as only Norman A. Daniels can tell them.

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.

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.