NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISHWhen Riley gets word that Miss Blandish is going out on the town with...

NO QUESTIONS ASKEDSteve Lake is the homicide captain, but that doesn't mean Lieutenant Rand has t...

A RAGE OF DESIRE

British Golden Age crime writer Philip MacDonald created some diabolically clever puzzle mysterie...

THE INCONVENIENT CORPSE

Rock and roll bad boy, Duke DeLuxe and his band are offered the opening spot on the Rolling Stone...

TROUBLE RIDES TALLBryant Shafter is the trouble marshal. Town leaders call him in when they need ...

THE EROTICSChris Pope is an artist stuck selling driftwood to tourists. So when sex kitten ...

LOOK BEHIND YOU, LADYWhat a pickup line!Bruce Flemish is getting ready for his magic act at...

THE HAUNTS OF MEN'It happened so unexpectedly, so abruptly, that she forgot to scream…'A w...

NO LAW AGAINST ANGELSIn which Lt. Al Wheeler investigates the murder of two young ladies——both of...

THE TOOTH AND THE NAILAs the trial begins, a man stands accused of murder. There is no body, but ...

DEAD DOLLS DON’T TALKThey didn’t have a body, but all the evidence proves to the jury that Harry ...

DEAD WEIGHTMike Carmody operates an expensive weight reducing salon in New York City. He's got ...

STRANGE CRIME IN BERMUDAHamish Grier received a telegram from his old friend Hector Malloy asking...

LIZLiz Allen isn’t going to take it anymore. Men have been trying to victimize her all her young ...

TO FIND CORACora has run off with another man, and Joe Byars is sick with the loss. It makes him ...

Ten Minute Stories Day and Night Stories'The author plunges with boldness, yet with consistent in...

TALL, DARK AND DEADTina Van Lube is being blackmailed by a disreputable ex-lover, so she hires de...

WAYWARD GIRLSandy Greening loses her virginity at fourteen to a drunken neighbor. Her mother does...

CORNERED!Ann Rodick is a witness to murder. Now on death row, the murderer appoints his brother, ...

SECRETS & SOVEREIGNSE. Phillips Oppenheim was the Prince of Story Tellers. In his lifetime he pub...

THE UNORTHODOX CORPSEIn which Lt. Al Wheeler must figure out- -who stuck in the knife in the ba...

COFFIN FOR A HOODThe two hired killers arrive by plane to the little coastal town of Arroyos in t...

THE LOST VALLEYAlgernon Blackwood spent the first half of 1909 traveling around Switzerland. When...

THE UNFINISHED CRIMEAndrew Branscombe has been courting Hilda Patrell in his old-fashioned, prigg...

SCRATCH A THIEFEddie Pesak is married now, and he’s got a young daughter. But there was a time wh...

RAPTURE ALLEYNo one needs Lora. Ken claims to love her, but he is married to Lora's wheelchair-ri...

NEW MAN IN THE HOUSERoger Garland has made a career out of pleasure. He is, in fact, the perfect ...

WAR OF THE DONSThe Guarda brothers run capo Messina's territory. Pepe, the oldest, is the muscl...

WILD TO POSSESSLew Brookbank is running from his grief. His wife had left him for another man, an...

PREY BY NIGHTBill Williams works for the Marquesa running contraband from Tangiers to the Spani...

A RAGE AT SEAFrank Dixon has just lost his ship in a crap game, and is about to lose his woman as...

THE BOXQuinn thought he had all the angles figured. After all, taking over the Organization shoul...

PAN’S GARDENPan’s Garden is a thematic collection of stories which, in the words of the author, '...

GO, LOVELY ROSEThey find Mrs. Henshaw at the bottom of the cellar stairs with her neck broken. Ev...

The Name of the Game is DeathHe calls himself Earl Drake. That’s not his real name, but it’ll do....

HERO’S LUSTEveryone in Crescent City knows that Mayor Gowan controls the town, most of all Red No...

HE WON’T NEED IT NOWBill Duffy is a tough newsman but he finally pushes too hard and is canned. T...

FRAMED IN GUILTIt didn't look good for Bob Stanton. The dead woman had been killed in his car—sho...

The Autumn DeadJack Dwyer used to be a cop. Now he's a rent-a-cop and part-time actor. Dwyer isn'...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter is one of the most revered...

GRAVES’ RETREATLes Graves has been running from his past until he finds Cedar Rapids and a respec...

'California Cornerstone' began as a semi-weekly column in The Daily Democrat in Woodland, Califor...

THE BODY ON THE SIDEWALKA body is found outside the Grady home, a man whom they all know, shot in...

SWEET MONEY GIRLHortense is a cynic. Love is great and all that, but it's money that makes the wo...

SPEAK OF THE DEVILWhen Karen Peterson first meets Mr. Fernandez on the cruise ship, he is so char...

Blood on the DesertAnthony Wheeler didn't want the job. When Major Pitt called him into the Londo...