crime

Curse of the Crimson Horde (SAX,39) – Secret Agent X — man of a thousand faces and conqueror of kings of crime — found himself parried by the ageless weapons and black magic of the Far East.

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.

Monsieur Dupin – The Detective Tales of Edgar Allan Poe – With the stories in this collection, Edgar Allan Poe is considered to have founded the genre of detective fiction. These five stories introduced the character of Auguste Dupin and gave us the foundation of “Ratiocination” (or deductive reasoning) from which later detectives such as Sherlock Holmes would claim their fame.

The Deadly Ones – Three stories about murders and the sociopaths that commit it. A corrupt politician accidentally kills his ex-secretary and has to disappear; an accomplice to fraud gets the the tables turned on her when she tries to kill her partner in crime; and all of the murders surrounding a secret new gunsight.