When Father Walsh went to see D'Arcy, notorious gossip columnist, about a sinister stranger who wanted two old Bibles and talked about the Walls of Jericho, his story was so fantastic he sounded as if he were out of his mind. Police, too, thought he was – especially when they later found him hanging by his neck in his home. They called it suicide. But D'Arcy called it murder.<P>
D'Arcy was right. Murder it was. and the story of how D'Arcy, a lovely girl, a gang of vicious swindlers, art dealers, and questionable lawyers got tangled up in a plot involving practically everything unlawfull – including grave robbing, violence, larceny, and murder – makes some of the smoothest, most excititing and entertaining mystery reading you've done in some time… It's a «must»!
A fsherman with a fondness for self-made aphorisms, Fong Kam Lee arrives in Hong Kong to fish lucratively, but is convinced by a syndicate representative that he should instead smuggle luxury goods…
Mr. Cardone, a career thief, has managed to avoid being caught in all his years of schemes and robberies. Upon visiting India for a vacation, he is approached by Mirajkar Dass, a big Hindu man, who proposes the heist of a valuable jewel-encrusted tapestry…
An original mystery story featuring the actress Jane Withers, famous motion picture star, as the heroine. From a series originally published by Whitman Publishing, each title featuring a different film star.
No need to worry if this bank is robbed—they have an external alarm that rings in a hat shop nearby. Crooks aren't clever enough to figure out stuff like this. Are they?
A Nazi spy stops at a private park during a practice blackout, where he meets a lovely young woman who refuses his advances—until he lies and says that he is both dying and off one a suicide mission…
A World War I spy-vs-counterspy tale, of the genteel, old-school variety.
"They hilariated when he hyperspaced toward Earth. “Nobody Earthwards,” they snickerly advised. But Young Harmish heeded not, being of stubborn stock, and onwards indefatigably toward the planet near Sol ringed by all that orbiting post-Sputnik junk."
A Dagbur Agradamian espionage tale. This time, the press takes note of his surprising appearance at a business meeting of one of Agradamian's oil companies, which shocked the rival company that was trying to take it over…