hard-boiled

42 Days For Murder – It takes six weeks or 42 days to get a quickee divorce in Reno. A lot can happen in 42 days.

Tropic Terror – When revolutionaries start to murder people in Puerto Rico, Special Agent Dan Fowler of the F.B.I. is sent down there to clean up the problem.

The Navy Spy Murders – A Japanese spymaster has left a trail of bodies in his quest to uncover the Navy’s secrets and Special Agent Dan Fowler of the F.B.I. has been called in to stop the deaths as well as the flood of stolen secrets.

Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie ‘Laura.’

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.

I’m a Dead Man – Four novelettes of murders committed to cover up fraud and to exact revenge. But as smart as the murderers think they are, they always make a mistake.

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.”

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

The Continental Op -1923 – Written in first person, these are the stories of an unnamed operative for the Continental Detective Agency. The Continental Op deals with the gamut of human crime and cruelty.