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Playing With Dynamite
Tormented by a satin-skinned package of dynamite who offered him ecstasy unfettered by convention...Bedeviled by another woman who wanted a master...Given 12 hours to get out of town-And then framed for murder...
This was the grim situation faced by Todd Corwin shortly after he came to Longport seeking Julie Steadman's killer.
If he cleared out of town he was sure of safety. If he stayed, nothing was certain except more trouble...
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Paul Norris, an out-of-work advertising executive, finds himself on a cross-country job tracking down a shipping crate. The crate holds something valuable - but exactly what, exactly, no one will say. In the process of finding the crate, Paul finds himself caught between shady characters, beautiful women...and more than a few double-crosses!
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Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor but he wasn't getting very far until the day she escaped from a strange roadside encounter. For when it turned out that murder had resulted from the affair, she threw herself hysterically into Burt's arms, pleading for his help.
It seems she had inherited a sealed box, whose contents were entirely unknown. Certain parties wanted that box badly. They had offered...
6) Kim
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Fun-crazy Kim Rumshaw refused to wall herself away from any available men just because she was engaged to Howard Massey. So when gangster Eddie Tarino invited her to play love games on his yacht, she was eager and willing to go.
Later Kim wa just as eager to forget the whole affair. But Tarino had other plans. And when Massey was beaten up and her aunt threatened, she turned to private detective Rod Striker for help.
Rod sent his curvaceous partner,...
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This is one of our smaller MEGAPACKs in that it only has two novels-but it collects the complete "Flash Evans" series, by Mildred Wirt. If you don't recognize her name, it's because she primarily worked behind pseudonyms. Most famously, she was the writer behind the original Nancy Drew novels, published as by "Carolyn Keene" but actually written by Mildred Wirt. Included are:
Flash Evans and the Darkroom Mystery
Flash Evans - Camera News Hawk
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Off-duty Police Constable Arthur Root is playing a round at Wolvers, his local golf club. However, he soon finds himself back on duty when a JCB driver working there digs up the body of a man. Root protects the excavated area as a crime scene. The man had been murdered, and is identified as Roger Hancock, a former member of the club. When there is a second brutal murder, involving many members of the golf club - Root himself becomes implicated...
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Martin Slade wants to bury his past as a saboteur in wartime Denmark and smuggler in postwar Europe. Returning to Denmark as a respectable journalist, he's approached by Birgitte Holtesen, an old flame now married to an elderly trader. Birgitte wants Martin to smuggle something back to English for her-but he refuses. She enlists instead a young musician, Sean Clifford. When Martin returns to England, he's attacked in his flat, and the place is ransacked....
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For Ross Elliot, the summer held no promise. With his teaching duties over until fall, he found himself facing boredom, with time on his hands. Which was why he didn't hesitate to involve himself in the affairs of one Barbara Erickson, ex-student and accused murderess.
As far as Elliot was concerned it simply wasn't possible for one so young - and so lovely - to be capable of such a horrendous crime. And what if he was the only one who believed in...
11) Hurricane Heist
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A classic crime story originally published in the November 9th, 1940 issue of Detective Fiction Weekly.
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An innocent man is arrested for a murder committed by a woman. A guilty killer confesses to a murder-but the police arrest an innocent woman. A man finds the woman of his dreams-only to discover that he's entrapped in a nightmare. The tenants of a new block of flats are so delighted with their home that they don't ever want to leave-little realizing that they CAN'T leave. A husband and wife find that all their wishes can come true-but with death as...
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It galled luscious, golden-haired Alma Chrysler to be tied to a husband as stodgy and unexciting as Norman. She didn't think a man should spend his evenings tinkering with a car.
Variety was the spice of love, Almla believed, and proved her theory with Scotty, Jim, Bob, and others she could hardly remember.
Now it was Ward Green and he was the best of the lot - a slave to her passion for her - but could she maneuver him into going along with her...
15) The Venus Death
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Two attractive women...one personable man...a gun...a shot...and then black headlines asking red blood for...THE VENUS DEATH BY BEN BENSON
Ben Benson's superb descriptions of the state police at work...and at play...have given all of his mystery novels a unique and buoyant quality of authenticity. The Venus Death is no exception...but here Mr. Benson departs from previous practice to create a vigorous new hero, young state trooper Ralph Lindsey.
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16) Murder is Grim
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If Kate Archer had known just what the invitation entailed, she most certainly would not have succumbed to the pleading of June Gladstone to spend a month's vacation at her father's luxurious farm.
Kate had met June at school, and, although four years her senior, had gone out of her way to befriend the forlorn, unattractive, almost ugly girl in her early teens. Now, five years later, the invitation had appeared out of the blue, and Kate found herself...
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Like the hot seat fits a killer, that's how the frame fitted the kid. Then they found him hanged and knew it for murder. Which made a desperate assignment for Detective Sergeant Randall - who had to find out if he himself were the murderer! He backtracked down his own trail with vengeful Stella - with lovely Karis of the hot eyes - with Roxy, the hood, who lived by lust. But what waited Randall at the murder's end? An honest cop, or - the corpse next...
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The morning after the season's worst blizzard of the year, Deputies Frank "Frack" Telusky and Robely Danner of the small farming community of Abundance, Wisconsin, are called to a remote section of woods, where they find a handcuffed man frozen to a tree. Since no one local has been reported missing they wonder if The Iceman is the driver of the overdue van out of Minnesota, reportedly carrying a fortune in silver fox coats. If so, where's the van...
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Francis Hammerton is arrested and convicted of involvement with a gang of confidence men-a charge of which he is entirely innocent-but escapes police custody when a cell door is left unlocked. He finds refuge at a nearby boarding house, but is arrested again when he discovers (and reports) the murdered body of an upstairs tenant-and then is unjustly accused of murder. The dead man had been suspected of a major bank fraud, and was being investigated...
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When Inspector Pinkey investigates the murder of Sir Daniel Denton in his country home, he's confronted with three prime suspects: the man's widow, his brother, and a recently-fired servant. But everywhere the policeman looks, he finds conflicting evidence-and the individuals involved all hate each other. Then Gerard Denton apparently commits suicide-or is it murder? -and the servant suddenly disappears. Is Lady Denton the murderer by default? An...
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