kidnapping

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seven Lies South – An American expat gets unwittingly drawn into a plot to hide an ex-Nazi’s corruption and dirty secrets. An ex-Nazi officer, a British grifter and a Canadian gold digger each want to use a broken American pilot to further their individual grafts.

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

Octopus Of Crime (SAX,6) – A monstrous octopus of evil gained slow power over the underworld. His identity as mysterious as that of Secret Agent “X” himself, this apostle of wickedness led the horror hordes of the nation into a bloody carnival of crime

Power – A Coast Guard cutter is called out to interdict drug smugglers but there are other forces at play. When the drug interdiction turns into the assassination of a foreign dignitary, it brings the nation to the brink of war. Ace FBI Special Agent Dan Fowler must figure out the score before the bullets start to fly.