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Kevin McCarthy, lay brother at a seminary, learns of the suicide of Rose Kathleen, his sister. She had been an exotic dancer and prostitute for a childhood bully turned crime lord, Rory O'Bannon. In her suicide note, she also sent Kevin a diary naming names, detailing narcotics transactions, and prostitution activities. Kevin renounces his vows, confessing to his superior his plan to kill Rory O'Bannon…

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Kearney is an alcoholic, trying to recover, and spending his second full day sober. When he witnesseses a «hairless man» kidnap a girl, he pursues them, despite his desire for a drink. But you know the old saying – no good deed goes unpublished…

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The detective “team” in this story, Tommy Twotoes and Terry Bob Rooke, known as “Soldier,” were introduced in my first two mystery novels, Most Men Don’t Kill and Murder in Black and White, both published by Random House in 1951. The main character, Tommy Twotoes, was (aside from his 300-pound avoir-dupois) based upon my great good friend, the late “Sunny Jim” Coffroth. Coffroth was without question the greatest sports pro­moter of all time, and I’m not forgetting Rickard or any of the others. He was also one of the zaniest and most completely lov­able human beings I have ever known. Twotoes was criticized in some quarters as being on the fantastic side. The answer to that is that I had to tone the real Coffroth down when I depicted him as the fictional Twotoes, for I knew no editor of fiction would accept the true-life article as being remotely possible. As for Rooke, Tommy was crippled from alcoholic neuritis and needed a pair of legs. I invented the Soldier to supply my hefty hero with a means of locomotion. Rooke, I think, derived mainly out of the nowhere into the here. He was depicted in my early novels as being a veteran of the iron coffins (tanks) in War Number Two and as liking his likker. In those two small respects, at least, he resembled his creator.

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It was noon and the stocky detective with the swarthy face waited in the corridor of the City Hospital. He was a middle-aged man with heavily defined features. His coarse dark hair was salted with gray and a little string of sweat beads glistened on his forehead. His heavy shoulders drooped from fatigue. His eyes were large and dark and there was weary compassion in them as if they had looked upon the thousand faces of human life, neither with despair nor hope, but only with a patient acceptance. The whites of the eyes were filamented with bloody threads. He had not slept the night before. He had stayed on duty because the psychopathic killer the papers called The Butcher was loose again. The detective’s name was Romano. He was a lieutenant of Homicide, Manhattan West.

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Bart Hardin trails a mad butcher – a killer who hates the pretty girls of the Great White Way!<P> With this taut and chilling tale, David Alexander, author of «Murder Points a Finger,» introduces Bart Hardin, sardonic, Broadway-wise editor of «The Broadway Times,» a racing and sports newspaper . . . Hardin of the fancy vests, with the rococo apartment over a flea circus, with a handout for every stumblebum around the Garden, with an impact on dames and an affinity for violence.<P> Hardin is the newest light on Broadway, and in detective fiction. «Terror on Broadway» is the first in another of a great new mystery series.

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The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK® focuses on acclaimed mystery novelist David Alexander, who also produced a significant body of short fiction. Included in this volume are 20 stories and an essay:<P> COFFEE AND—<BR> AND ON THE THIRD DAY<BR> THE OTHER ONES<BR> DIE LIKE A DOG<BR> FIRST CASE<BR> MAMA’S BOY<BR> SCARECROW<BR> UNCLE TOM<BR> SURPRISE! SURPRISE!<BR> MAMA’S BOY<BR> THE GENTLEST OF THE BROTHERS<BR> RUN FROM THE SNAKES<BR> THE MAN WHO WENT TO TALTAVUL’S<BR> FACE OF EVIL<BR> BAD WORD A STRANGER IN THE NIGHT<BR> SOMETHING IN THE AIR<BR> WHEN THE RAIN STOPS<BR> ONE DRINK CAN KILL YOU<BR> LOVE WILL FIND A WAY<BR> THE ITALIANS AND THE COFFEE LICE<P> If you enjoy this volume, check out the 400+ other volumes in the MEGAPACK® series, featuring modern and classic tales of mystery, suspense, science fiction, fantasy, western action—and many other subjects. All are available in your favorite ebook store.

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A COP-KILLER WAS LOOSE<P> The Cop: «Just find Ellison.» Inspector Sanson said, «– and leave me alone with him in a locked room –»<P> The Girl: "He used to make me scream and cry when he tore the wings of butterflies, and now – and now –"<P> The Killer: «I have to kill her. I have to kill her now because of you. I’ll have to kill you too, of course.»

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Along with John Dickson Carr and Rex Stout, David Alexander is not only a master of atmosphere and suspense, but creator of some of the most ingenious, diabolically clever plots in detective literature. Alexander’s famous murder expert, Bart Hardin, tracks a devious killer through Times Square’s murky night-world to solve his most fascinating case!

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