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Mystery Mile – An attempted murder on a liner making a transatlantic crossing, a suicide, blackmail, a kidnapping, and the only clue – a chess piece – a red knight left to Albert Campion in the dead man’s suicide letter.

My Flesh is Sweet – On the run in Mexico from the accidental killing of a drunken Mexican general, Ad and Eleana must somehow make it back across the border to confront a decades-old secret that could destroy them both.

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 …

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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.

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.

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

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.

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 Golden Ghoul (SAX,16) – Secret Agent “X’s” far-flung, crime-crushing organization brought him whisperings of a fiend who meted out a death worse than death— a monster who called himself the Ghoul.