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Carla Bowman is a young and beautiful society girl with wild blood coursing through her veins. She becomes the honey of King Logan, a gangster operating the protection racket on New York's East Side, and is caught up in a maelstrom of violence and bloodshed. When Sylvester Shapirro cuts in on King, Carla decides to double-cross the gang-leader and join Shapirro, a decision she regrets when she faces him in his fantastic house at Montauk Point. Here she learns the horrifying secret of Shapirro’s true nature, and becomes his captive in a sanatorium. After she escapes, to learn that Shapirro has killed her father, Carla's only desire is to revenge her father's death–whatever the cost to herself. A classic, hard-driving crime thriller from the 1950s!

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This volume collects two stories featuring Dan Turner, hardboiled Hollywood detective. In “Death Ends the Scene,” a washed-up movie-director is going to knock himself off in order to give his no-good bride a double-indemnity payoff—and Dan Turner, trying to do a couple of good deeds, finds himself facing a murder rap with some very hard gunsels making it tough! In “Phony Shakedown,” Dan thinks the girl shot at him, and it didn’t make him any the less mad because she had missed. But before he can make her talk, another bullet closes her mouth. That sort of interference in Dan’s business is the last straw! Somebody is going to pay—and plenty.

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The darkness holds many surprises. In this collection of thirty stories of horror and the bizarre, we shall explore some of those surprises. Even though I’ve been extolling the virtues of darkness, I do encourage you to read this book with the lights on. Light does have its practical applications, you know. You have to see the words.

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THE KING IN YELLOW – recently featured in HBO's hit series TRUE DETECTIVE – is a collection of 10 short stories, the reading of which will curse one to a terrible fate. You have been warned! This edition features an introduction by H.P. Lovecraft.

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Adventure Tales showcases the best authors from the classic pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century. This volume highlights the work of Hugh B. Cave as the Featured Author, with two rare, previously unreprinted stories, plus fiction contributions by J. Allan Dunn, H. Bedford Jones, Harold Lamb, Vincent Starrett, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Saki (H.H. Munro), Johnston McCulley, Captain A.E. Dingle, Charles C. Young, John Kendrick Bangs, and F. Marion Crawford. Interview with Hugh B. Cave.

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The year: 1956. The place: Los Angeles, California. When six-year-old Daisy Adler vanishes from her upscale Hollywood Hills home during a crowded New Year's Eve party, LAPD Detective Rusty Hallinan enters a case with more dangerous twists and turns than Mulholland Drive. Hallinan's life hits a bump or two of its own when he's dumped by his wife of eleven years, and falls hard for an enchanting young murder suspect half his age. But what's the connection between the suspect's murdered husband and a dying bar-room stripper? How does Ty the transvestite fit into the puzzle? And where has little Daisy gone–murdered, abducted, or killed by accident? A marvelously intricate historical mystery with an absolutely authentic setting!

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with issue #11, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: «The Adventures of Sherlock Hoosier,» by Dan Andriacco; «To Walk a Crooked Mile,» by Hal Charles; «Closing the Circle,» by Sergio Gaut vel Hartman; «The Cantor and the Ghost,» by G. Miki Hayden; «The Compound,» by Marc Bilgrey; «The Adventure of the Missing Countess,» by Jon Koons; «Home Tour,» by D. Lee Lott; «The Peculiar Adventure of the Paradol Chamber,» by Jack Grochot; «The Red-headed League,» by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. «Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine» is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.

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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: A CLASSIC CRIME TALE, adapted from the play of Ernest Dudley by Philip Harbottle.

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The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected. Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, he'd hired Los Angeles private eye Johnny Merak to discover who was threatening him. Then he's found seated in his private vault with a knife in his back–a vault whose combination only he knows, a vault no one else has entered in the interim. Summoned to the scene, Merak is hired by Gloria, Galecci’s statuesque blonde wife, to discover her husband's killer, and to determine how an impossible crime has been committed. But in accepting the assignment, Merak soon finds himself marked for death as well! The third entry in this exciting hardboiled crime series.

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This volume assembles a mammoth collection of modern Sherlock Holmes stories – no less than 25 tales by modern masters, such as Carla Coupe, Gary Lovisi, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, and many more! (It's also an authorized edition, produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.) <P> THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EMERALDS, by Carla Coupe<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND ROUND, by Mark Wardecker<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE MIDNIGHT SEANCE, by Michael Mallory<BR> THE CASE OF THE TARLETON MURDERS, by Jack Grochot<BR> THE TATTOOED ARM, by Marc Bilgrey<BR> THE INCIDENT OF THE IMPECUNIOUS CHEVALIER, by Richard A. Lupoff<BR> SHERLOCK HOLMES—STYMIED! by Gary Lovisi<BR> YEARS AGO AND IN A DIFFERENT PLACE, by Michael Kurland<BR> A STUDY IN EVIL, by Gary Lovisi<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE AMATEUR MENDICANT SOCIETY, by John Gregory Betancourt<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE HAUNTED BAGPIPES, by Carla Coupe<BR> SUN CHING FOO'S LAST TRICK, by Adam Beau McFarlane<BR> Dr WATSON’S FAIRY TALE, by Thos. Kent Miller<BR> THE CASE OF VAMBERRY THE WINE MERCHANT, by Jack Grochot<BR> A HOUSE GONE MAD, by Sherlock Holmes as edited by Bruce I. Kilstein<BR> BE GOOD OR BEGONE, by Stan Trybulski<BR> CUTTING FOR SIGN, by Rhys Bowen<BR> THE STAGECOACH DETECTIVE, by Linda Robertson<BR> THE DEAD HOUSE, by Bruce Kilstein<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE VOORISH SIGN, by Richard A. Lupoff<BR> THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE PEACOCK STREET PECULIARS, by Michael Mallory<BR> SECOND FIDDLE, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch<BR> THE CASE OF THE NETHERLAND-SUMATRA COMPANY, by Jack Grochot<BR> YOU SEE BUT YOU DO NOT OBSERVE, by Robert J. Sawyer<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEARLY GATES, by Mike Resnick <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories – and much, much more! (Sort by publication date to see the most recent additions.)

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