She lived fast...and she loved fast. Everyone who knew Helene Camden had a good reason for wanting her dead: Hal Camden - her husband, who knew she was two-timing him all over Florida Tom Ferris - who knew all the angles...and the curves Charlie Ames - who woke up in the dead woman’s bed Ben Sheldon - who had an eye for business...and for anything in skirts A thrill-packed suspense tale with a stunning surprise ending!
When Jim Charters drank, he talked too much. He claimed he could get Pearl Mantinover out of the death house because he could prove she was innocent. Shooting off his mouth this time led Jim into the tightest spot of his life . . . The next morning he woke up with $10,000 in his hand and voluptuously naked Lou Tarrent in his bed. Jim was on a chase that kept him running for his life, for Lou was all woman and wouldn’t take no for an answer!
He was as rare as a three-dollar bill . . . an honest man in the town of French Bayou - that was crowding Phenix City out of corruption’s first place. He was young Deputy Sheriff Andy Latour, with enough stern morality for someone to have set an assassin on his trail. But Latour dodged the bullets, and now it was urgent that his voice be silenced. So - a phone call in the night, a drive out of town, the thud of a blackjack. And when Latour woke to daylight he was ringed around by hard, watchful men, accused of the brutal rape of a gorgeous young redhead - and the murder of her aged husband. And even when Latour crashed jail, the word went out to bring him back dead . . .
She had a plan . . . She would find the man that had done this terrible thing to her. She would get into her cream-colored Cadillac and drive until she came to Blairville - his town. She would look for his house and go there with the little pearl-handled revolver in her purse. Then, as calmly as she could, she would tell him who she was and why she had come . . . and she would pull the trigger of the revolver as many times as was necessary . . .
NO MAN COULD RESIST HER. BUT COULD ANY MAN EVER HAVE HER? After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. But what he found instead was Corliss Mason: beautiful, sensual, irresistible – and nothing but trouble. It begins with a bar fight that lands Swede in jail. Soon he’s helping Corliss cover up a killing. But how long can they get away with murder? And why can’t Swede shake the terrible suspicion that he’s being set up?
Cade Cain was back in town after two years in a Communist prison camp. His first night home he’d been beaten by a sadistic hoodlum and warned to get out of town fast. Now someone had planted a bullet-riddled corpse on his doorstep. Three people in town hated him - his greedy ex-wife, her wheeler-dealer boyfriend, and the big muscle man in the local mafia. But which of them ordered murder - and signed Cade’s name to the tab?
On the day they gave the money away . . . the shopping center was a scene of confusion. A carnival had been set up nearby, and now a clown was throwing coins and bills to the eager crowd. Suddenly the gay scene changed to nightmare. A man clutched his stomach and dropped to the ground. A clown was shot; a young mother was killed by a stray bullet. The merrymakers were no longer the audience, but unwilling pawns in a dangerous game - with life or death as the stakes.
This is the sixth volume of criminous short stories by Day Keene published by Ramble House. Originally presented in various pulp magazines in the 30s, these stories represent the best in hard-boiled fiction pre-Spillane. Keene was known for his excellent novels but he truly shone in the short story format where his pithy, down-to-earth prose perfectly described the day-to-day life of the typical American loser.
Alive, she was worth a fortune . . . dead, she was a racketeer’s life insurance! Mona Ambler sat in the death house with a secret that not even a decent guy like Mike Duval could extract. Just home from Korea, Mike had to go about saving the gal the hard way. Maybe she really had shot and killed a jewelry salesman, maybe she had been the no-good thieving B-girl the papers had reported, but just the same she had also been the beloved wife of Mike’s only brother. The odds were a hundred-to-one that Mona would go to the chair without talking. But Mike Duval was willing to gamble against these odds. The thing he didn’t realize was that the boss of the city rackets was betting against him with every gunman, chiseler, and grafter on his side. Because Mona knew something that could blast the city wide open!
Day Keene wrote these eight hardboiled tales for the pulps, particularly Detective Stories, in the 40s. John Pelan has selected these for Volume #1 of the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series. The titles are: League of the Grateful Dead As Deep As the Grave Fry Away, Kentucky Babe Crawl Out of That Coffin Marry the Sixth for Murder Nothing to Worry About Dance with The Death House Doll Dead As in Mackerel The introduction by John Pelan tells more about Ramble House's plan to reprint ALL of Day Keene's pulp stories.
This is the second collection in the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps Series, edited by John Pelan and Fender Tucker and introduced by Ed Gorman. Its six novellas were published in the 40s and include: We Are The Dead Corpses Come In Pairs Kitten On The Corpse A Slight Mistake In Corpses Thirteen Must Die If The Coffin Fits
DEATH MARCH OF THE DANCING DOLLS is the third volume of the series: Day Keene in the Detective Pulps. It is introduced by Texas' own Bill Crider and has a cover by Gavin L. O'Keefe. Day Keene is well-known for his hardboiled novels but his short stories from the pulps are almost completely forgotten, until now. This volume contains these stories: Stay As Dead As You Are, Detective Tales, October 1946 The Charlie McCarthy Murders, Detective Tales, March 1942 Doc Egg's Graveyard Reunion, Dime Mystery, February 1946 Death March of the Dancing Dolls, Dime Mystery, September 1945. So Sorry You Die Now, Dime Mystery, January 1945 A Minor Matter of Murder, Short Stories, Dec 25, 1945 Mighty Like a Rogue, Dime Detective, January 1950
They showed me the bone fragments, and the charred diamond, and everything else - but I said to hell with their theory. Wilma was alive and I knew it. She had to be. The newspapers were yelling that I had murdered her!
What's the first thing you think of doing when you find you only have months to live? Hint: it involves money. A lot of it. And it isn't yours. And the second thing...?
The word may be getting out that Day Keene, author of those great noir novels of the 40s and 50s, also wrote a lot of stories for the pulps -- and that John Pelan and Ramble House are bringing all of them back for re-reading. Many of these stories were written during WWII and you can tell emotions are burning. Here are the stories in this fifth volume of the series: A Corpse Walks in Brooklyn-Detective Tales, October 1945 The Stars Say Die!-Detective Tales November 1941 Herr Yama from Yokohoma-Ace G-Man February 1943 Seven Keys to Murder-Dime Mystery, September 1944 I'll Be Seeing You-Dime Mystery, November 1946 Three Dead Mice-Flynn's, March 1944 A Corpse for Cinderella-Dime Mystery May 1945 Claws of the Hell Cat-Dime Mystery, January 1946
If he proved the girl was innocent, then Renner himself would be arrested as the killer! TAKE A STEP TO MURDER Only a short time ago Renner had told the harsh truth to Tamara. "Look," he had said, "I'm forty thousand dollars short on this deal and you can help me. I know this Kelcey Anders who isn't quite normal, understand? With him girls are a disease. Here's what I want you to do: let him rough you up a little, let him try to rape you and then scream for help. I'll break in and threaten him with arrest. But that’ll never happen because his old man will pay off to keep his son out of prison. Pay off forty thousand dollars to keep you quiet." Renner never forgot the look of disgust onTamara's face, and as he stared down at the body of Kelcey Anders, he thought he knew who had mutilated and killed the town satyr.
It would take plenty for Harry Breen to keep cool in the face of the heat the cops turned on after that double kill. But 250-grand worth of ice can do a lot of cooling!
The Case of the Bearded Bride and Other Stories is the fourth book in the Day Keene in the Mystery Pulps series by John Pelan from Ramble House. These ten were selected by Pelan and are the Keene stories he published under two different names: Gunard Hjertstedt and John Corbett. Here are the ten stories and their sources: Pure and Simple - Gunard Hjertstedt - Detective Fiction Weekly, October 31, 1931 Excuse My Crust - Gunard Hjertstedt - Detective Fiction Weekly December 5, 1931 The Case of the Bearded Bride - Gunard Hjertstedt - Clues Detective Stories May, 1935 Tong Boy Goes to War - John Corbett - Detective Tales, April 1942 You Only Live Twice - John Corbett - Detective Tales, May 1945 Dig Deep, Brother - John Corbett - Detective Tales, October 1945 This Way Out - John Corbett - Dime Mystery May 1946 Alias Jenny Catalpa - John Corbett - Detective Tales, January 1948 Setup in 819 - John Corbett - Detective Tales, May 1948 It's Better to Burn - John Corbett - New Detective Magazine, March 1950
He was an ex-con walking the last steps toward freedom. He was an ex-con torn between the lust to get the man who “sent him up the river” and the vow to go straight; torn between returning to his faithful wife and his pulse-quickening Cuban mistress... As the prison gates closed behind him het met—not his wife, but the enticing Cuban. She took him to a private retreat in the woods. She was everything that he remembered. Then suddenly she was cold—cold and dead in his arms!
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Hugh B. Cave, and Edgar Franklin, all from the golden age of pulp fiction. With vintage brush illustrations by Arthur Rodman Bowker, as well as a previously-unpublished interview with the author of Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak.
Two classic mysteries from the golden age of paperback publishing, originally published by Graphic Books and Lion Books in 1949 and 1951, and unavailable since then.
As our 88th issue was coming together, I noticed that we have a pair of jungle adventure novels—the first Bomba the Jungle Boy story, as well as Tarzan and the Lost Empire. So I’m going to bill it as a “Special Jungle Warrior Issue” and just add that it’s a fun one. #88 also includes two original mysteries (Mark Thielman, N.M. Cedeño) plus a bunch of other great modern and classic stories (Fritz Leiber! Day Keene! George O. Smith!). I would have gladly bought Anna Tambour’s story for Weird Tales when I was editing WT—don’t forget to check it out. (It falls somewhere between fantasy, crime, and Rod Serling’s the Twilight Zone. And we are super happy to welcome back Acquiring Editor Cynthia Ward, who brings us the Walter Jon Williams tale this time. We look forward to many more selections from her. Here’s the complete lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “License to Kill,” by Mark Thielman [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “The Case of the Burgled Bushels,” by Hal Charles. [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “Short-Term Murder,” by N.M. Cedeño [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “Dead Men Do Tell Tales,” by Day Keene [short story] Bomba the Jungle Boy, by Roy Rockwood [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Lethe,” by Walter Jon Williams [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “I Killed for a Lucky Strike,” by Anna Tambour [short story] “Atomic Bonanza,” by George O. Smith “Martians Keep Out!” by Fritz Leiber [short novel] Tarzan and the Lost Empire, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [novel]
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