ONE WAS A KILLER: A TOUGH KID—with a record of violence. The headlines screamed for a fast conviction. THE LEADER of a vicious gang. What had he wanted from Ann Avery the night of her death? A DOPE ADDICT—She looked too frail to kill anyone. A HIGH LIVER—on a teacher’s salary. Where did he get the big money? A JEALOUS HUSBAND—Did he really love his wife? A LUSH—Blackmail was her only chance for more whiskey. A RELUCTANT WITNESS—Why did he hide a ...
It is possible to suggest that Her Britannic Majesty’s Foreign Office was moved more by ancestral instinct than by its computers in selecting Sir Vyvyan Bultivant, to be the Governor General of the Pacific island kingdom of Ceruliana, which just might be the closest thing to a Paradise on this Earth. He was just the man for the job. <P> For nearly two decades prior to his appointment Sir Vyvyan had assisted materially in the dissolution ...
What makes a stalker? And what happens when a perfectly respectable man becomes obsessed with the girl across the street? A noir crime story, orginally published in the April 1956 issue of MANHUNT magazine, as only Gil Brewer could tell it! ...
Young Y. Cheung is in a pickle! In order to receive a $100,000 inheritance from his grandfather’s estate, he must get his name mentioned in 1000 U.S. newspapers, “in an honorable fashion” before midnight of the day before the estate is settled. On top of that, his family doesn’t consider his one-of-a-kind profession, business detective, “honorable”. How Y. Cheung uses his inscrutable wiles to gain happiness and the inheritance is a tale only Ha ...
Strange doings on an ore boat! Ted and Nelson to go undercover as unskilled deck hands on the S.S. Shamrock unravel the truth. Is it just bad luck, or is something more nefarious afoot? Stir in a stowaway, a realistic shipping setting, and a series of puzzling events and you get a classic entry in the Ted Wilford series. ...
The Kingdom of Killain – that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the crossroads of the world. The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make – all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his turf – a flick of his fist makes broken guys and dolls. So Johnny patrolled the dark corridors in peace…until the night he rounded a bend and looked murder square in the eye. The blonde lay on the bed ...
“Mr. Amberley,” the Captain continued, raising his gaze from the floor and staring into nothingness, “I have to inform you that this ship is presently in the control of pirates.”<P> The Chief Purser took an instinctive step forward, felt immediately the pressure of a gun in his back, and was aware that a third man, the one who had locked the door, was still behind him. ...
