Five Intriguing Novelets
Kiss Of The Ravishing Corpse
by Elmer Meadows
A glamour girl’s strip-tease amours and a society dowager’s customs frame, drove Detective Lee Hoyt into a hell ship’s mystery maw... where every clue was a corpse!
Quench My Flaming Flesh!
by Wilbur S. Peacock
Through a penitentiary’s Tommy-gun gauntlet Bret Jarvis crashed into a love-baited man-trap... to learn that his sweetheart was a murder mart’s father-slaying enchantress!
Cargo For The Morgue
by Dale De V. Kier
An assassin’s crimson blade, changed fate-badgered Oscar Whipple from a harmless little barber into a sinister snare, that made Inspector McGinty overdue at the morgue!
Cadavers For Ransom
by Stephen McBarron
Headline-hunting Jane Furness solved the Clinton snatch case — in front of a racket rajah’s firing squad!
Don’t Trifle With A Gatman!
by Cyril Plunkett
Even in a cop-ringed haven for the ill, racket-busting Samuel Sutton found no sanctuary from a man-devil’s terror tentacles!
Seven Dramatic Short Stories
Invitation To Homicide
by Robert C. Blackmon
This might have been a priest from a religious sect thousands of years dead who was seeking the book of his ancient prayers... but the knife that was poised over the ravishing Reba’s luscious throat looked a hell of a lot like murder — 1939 style!
Creep Joint
by Prentice Agnew
A double-crossing corpse invited Sandy Saunders to be his morgue-mate!
The Devil Is A Madman
by Paul Selonke
Curt Bradford baited that madman’s trap with his own body... But the jailbreaking maniac was smarter, he had more use for the live, lovely body of Gloria Stark, than he had for the dead, cold, cadaver that once was Private Dick Bradford!
Honor Of A Killer
by Ray Cummings
A snatch artist’s bloody crime turned little Manuel Vargas from an honest but starving laborer into an overdue candidate for the hot squat!
Lure Of The Green Hell
by Robert Leslie Bellam
Two pictures on one plate gave Pat Mallory, ace camera clicker, a double exposure to doom!
Murder Has Magic
by Frank Kerr
The Great Kalar’s weird necromancy was no shield against a love-enslaved ghoul’s murder magic!
When Satan Played Saint
by “Undercover” Dix
He was a merchant of menace who collected golden dividends from the United States Government!
